Saint Augustine ~

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.