Quotes from St. Augustine
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
- St. Augustine
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
- St. Augustine
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
- St. Augustine
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
- St. Augustine
By and by never comes.
- St. Augustine
Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
- St. Augustine
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
- St. Augustine
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
- St. Augustine
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
- St. Augustine
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
- St. Augustine
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
- St. Augustine
Love and say it with your life.
- St. Augustine