Saint Augustine

68 quotes

"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination."

Saint 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."

Saint Augustine

"God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless."

Saint Augustine

"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness."

Saint Augustine

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

"Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God."

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

"Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace."

Saint Augustine

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

Saint Augustine

"A happy life is joy in the truth."

Saint Augustine

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."

Saint Augustine

"Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all."

Saint Augustine

"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."

Saint Augustine

"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise."

Saint Augustine

"No one hates his body."

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

"He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood."

Saint Augustine

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."

Saint Augustine

"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."

Saint 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."

Saint Augustine

"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father."

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

"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."

Saint Augustine

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

Saint Augustine