Augustine Of Hippo, City Of God Quotes
Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.
... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.
There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.
When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.
This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.