Augustine of Hippo

Let us rejoice and give thanks. Not only are we become Christians, but we are become Christ. My brothers, do you understand the grace of God that is given us? Wonder, rejoice, for we are made Christ! If He is the Head, and we the members, then together He and we are the whole man.... This would be foolish pride on our part, were it not a gift of his bounty. But this is what He promised by the mouth of the Apostle: You are the body of Christ, and severally His members (1 Cor. 12:27).

We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.