Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
More Quotes by Saint Augustine
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
God is best known in not knowing him.