For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you, they are simply 'today'... But you yourself are eternally the same. In your 'today' you will make all that is to exist tomorrow and thereafter, and in your 'today' you have made all that existed yesterday and forever before.

— Augustine of Hippo

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

— Augustine of Hippo

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

— Augustine of Hippo

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

— Augustine of Hippo

He loves The too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

— Augustine of Hippo

Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.

— Augustine of Hippo

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

— Augustine of Hippo

He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about.

— Augustine of Hippo

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.

— Augustine of Hippo

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

— Augustine of Hippo