Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine

"Man doesn't find the truth. Man must let the truth find him."

"Yesterday I watched the storks migrate. I envied them. They always know when to leave and which direction to go. Yet, for us so hard to understand what God wants us to do"

"It's not the man who finds the Truth, but the Truth that finds the man, because the Truth is a person - it's Jesus Christ."

"I've always spoken too much. Today for the first time - listened."

"Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without, and I sought thee out there. Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made. Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee. These things kept me far from thee; even though they were not at all unless they were in thee. Thou didst call and cry aloud, and didst force open my deafness. Thou didst gleam and shine, and didst chase away my blindness. Thou didst breathe fragrant odors and I drew in my breath; and now I pant for thee. I tasted, and now I hunger and thirst. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for thy peace."

"Our life is just a shell: fragile, temporary. But there's something that lives within us that is not fragile, it's not temporary. We are all already living in Eternal Life, my son."

"Ambitious, lustful, narcissistic - I was all these things and still am, as we all are. As we all are, but not one of us is alone, ever, not even when we're in desperation, bitterness, darkness. God is close to us. God is more brother than any brother. He's more friend than any friend, more lover than any lover"

"A man is what he loves. If you love the earth, you will be of the earth. If you love God, you will be of God. As the Scriptures say, "We are all gods and children of God.""

"Alessandro Preziosi — Augustine of Hippo"

"Franco Nero — Augustine in old age"

"Monica Guerritore — Monica"

"Johannes Brandrup — Valerius"

"Alexander Held — Valerius in old age"

"Katy Louise Saunders — Lucilla"

"Sebastian Ströbel — Fabius"

"Serena Rossi — Khalidà"

"Götz Otto — Genseric, king of the Vandals"

"Andrea Giordana — Ambrose"

"Cesare Bocci — Romaniano"

"Francesca Cavallin — the Empress mother Iustina"

"Dominic Atherton — the child Emperor Valentinian II"

"Sonia Aquino — Blesilla"