More quotes by Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."
"I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed."