858 Quotes by Saint Augustine

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

If you understood him, it would not be God.