“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.”
Time
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
TravelAll Quotes by Saint Augustine
“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”
Forgiveness“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
Nature“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patience“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“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.”
Great“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
Faith“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
God“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.”
Men“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?”
Government“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.”
Love“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
Good“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.”
God“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Travel“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Beauty“Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
Faith“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.”
Great“Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.”
Beauty“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
Happiness“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”
Art