Quotes from St. Augustine
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.
- St. Augustine
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
- St. Augustine
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
- St. Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
- St. Augustine
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
- St. Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- St. Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
- St. Augustine
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
- St. Augustine
Your wisdom should be without pride.
- St. Augustine
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
- St. Augustine
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
- St. Augustine