"For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism."

"If Adam and Eve had not sinned, God might have created children for them without the need of intercourse."

"There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride."

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."

"The things we love and desire are not ours to hold. Love turns false and dangerous when we assert ourselves as the masters of our universe. Our original sin, in Augustine's view, is the human conditio…"