Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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)

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

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