How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

— Augustine of Hippo

How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose.! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation.

— Augustine of Hippo

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

— Augustine of Hippo

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives forever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

— Augustine of Hippo

Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men.

— Augustine of Hippo

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

— Augustine of Hippo

If we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (tarsus Del Marines vehicles) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

— Augustine of Hippo

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

— Augustine of Hippo

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

— Augustine of Hippo

If you understood him, it would not be God.

— Augustine of Hippo