Saint Augustine Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Past, Mercy Of God

• There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Equality, Saint

• If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Ifs

• Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Medicine, Suffering

• We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

  Saint Augustine

  Mistake, Past, Needs

• Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Ebb And Flow, Forever

  Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Moved On, Eternity

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

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Three, Variation

  Saint Augustine (2003). “City of God”, p.589, Penguin UK

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