St. Augustine Explains It All For You

I wouldn't be Catholic without his Confessions, so in his honor, a few choice lines from our Saint of the Day:

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
• We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
• The purpose of all wars is peace.
• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
• Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.