Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

"God is best known in not knowing him."
53 Quotes
"God is best known in not knowing him."
Saint Augustine
"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others."
Saint Augustine
"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
Saint Augustine
"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
Saint 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."
Saint Augustine
"The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before."
Saint Augustine
"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."
Saint Augustine
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
Saint Augustine
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
Saint Augustine
"Custom is second nature."
Saint Augustine
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
Saint Augustine
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
Saint Augustine
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
"He that is jealous is not in love."
Saint Augustine
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine
"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."
Saint Augustine
"By-and-by never comes."
Saint Augustine
"Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do."
Saint Augustine
"If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times."
Saint Augustine
"It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection."
Saint Augustine
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