Saint Augustine Quotes

By-and-by never comes.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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.

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

God is best known in not knowing him.

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

He that is jealous is not in love.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

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.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Custom is second nature.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own

Love is the beauty of the soul.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.