“A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing. ”

“Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.”

“There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will."(Against Fortunatus)”

“Further, all men are to be loved equally. But since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you. For, suppose that you had a great deal of some commodity, and felt bound to give it away to somebody who had none, and that it could not be given to more than one person; if two persons presented themselves, neither of whom had either from need or relationship a greater claim upon you than the other, you could do nothing fairer than choose by lot to which you would give what could not be given to both. Just so among men: since you cannot consult for the good of them all, you must take the matter as decided for you by a sort of lot, according as each man happens for the time being to be more closely connected with you.Book 1, Chapter 28 - How we are to decide whom to aid”

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

“Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great is the Lord and highly worthy to be praised. I tell my story for love of Your love.”

“Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).”