Saint Augustine Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Soul, Grace

• You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Eagles, Passing Away

• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  Saint Augustine

  Religious, Eye, Men

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Land, Support, Want

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