Quotes from Saint Augustine

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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.

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.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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.

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

By and by never comes.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Love and say it with your life.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.