Quotes by Saint Augustine

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

"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."

"The purpose of all wars, is peace."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

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

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

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

"He that is jealous is not in love."

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

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

"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."

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

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

"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

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

"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

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

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