Autobiography and memoirGive me chastity and continency—but not yet!St. AugustineConfessions · 398★ 7.9
Autobiography and memoir · Religious literatureOur heart is restless until it rests in you.St. AugustineConfessions · 400★ 7.8
Religious literatureThe weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.St. AugustineConfessions · 400★ 4.0
Religious literatureToo late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you.St. AugustineConfessions · 400★ 3.8
LetterThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.St. Jerome394★ 3.7
LetterDo not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"St. Jerome394★ 3.7
LetterEven brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.St. Jerome394★ 3.7
LetterThe Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.St. Jerome396★ 3.7
LetterEvery day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.St. Jerome396★ 3.7
LetterWhen you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.St. AmbroseSt. Augustine, Letter to Casulanus · 397★ 3.7
Religious literatureGod became man so that man might become God.AthanasiusOn the Incarnation · 318★ 2.2
Essay · Philosophical literatureA law that is not just does not seem to me to be a law.St. Augustine389★ 2.2
LetterIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.St. Jerome379★ 2.0
Religious literatureThe Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth.Libosus of VagaAugustine of Hippo, On Baptism, Against the Donatists · 400★ 1.9
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