“There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell.”

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.”

“Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.”

“Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you have understood much, but that you have been able to retain it. Otherwise it is of little profit either to read or to understand.”

“The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)”

“Learn everything. Later you will see that nothing is superfluous.”

“He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.”