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Saint Augustine Quotes about Past

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

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

Saint Augustine
Past, Equality, Saint

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

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

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

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

Saint Augustine
Past, Ifs

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

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

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