Quotes from St. Augustine
Give what you command, and command what you will.
- St. Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- St. Augustine
Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
- St. Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- St. Augustine
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
- St. Augustine
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.
- St. Augustine
Take up, read! Take up, read!
- St. Augustine
What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.
- St. Augustine
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
- St. Augustine
Hear the other side.
- St. Augustine
I was in love with loving.
- St. Augustine
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- St. Augustine