Quotes from Saint Augustine

Singing is a lover's thing.

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

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.