Saint Augustine Quotes

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

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

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.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

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

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

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.