Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine Quotes about Life
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
Love and say it with your life.
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.