A biography for Saint Augustinehasn’t been written yet.
“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”
“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.”
“To seek the highest good is to live well.”
“The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?”
“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.”
“The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.”
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“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.”