Time for a New Good Quote :)

There just isn't enough room on Facebook for "favorite quotations." These will be my favorite Augustine ones (a few of them!). They probably aren't half as powerful out of context. And I'm not sure how good the translation is. Oh, to know Latin.

"Deep inside my heart his name remained, and nothing could entirely captivate me, however learned, however neatly expressed, however true it might be, unless his name were in it."
~Augustine's Confessions (in speaking of Christ)
book 2

"This is because the appearance of what we do is often different from the intention with which we do it, and the circumstances at the time may not be clear."
(hmmm interesting...)
~Augustine's Confessions
book 3

"...at your altar we receive the holy Victim, who canceled the decree made to our prejudice, and in whom we have triumphed over the enemy who reckons up our sins trying to find some charge to bring against us, yet can find no fault in Him in whom we conquer."
~St. Augustine

"O Lord my God, how deep are your mysteries! ...If there were a mind endowed with such great power of knowing and foreknowing that all the past and all the future were known to it as clearly as I know a familiar psalm, that mind would be wonderful beyond belief. We should hold back from it in awe at the thought that nothing in all the history of the past and nothing in all the ages yet to come was hidden from it. It would know all this as surely as, when I sing the psalm, I know what I have already sung and what I have still to sing, how far I am from the beginning and how far from the end. But it is unthinkable that you, Creator of the universe, Creator of souls and bodies, should know all the past and all the future merely in this way. Your knowledge is far more wonderful, far more mysterious than this."
~ St Augustine Confessions
Book 11

"They would see that time derives its length only from a great number of movements constantly following one another into the past, because they cannot all continue at once. But in eternity nothing moves into the past: all is present...Furthermore, although you are before time, it is not in time that you precede it..It is in eternity, which is supreme over time because it is never-ending present, that you are at once before all past time and after all future time. For what is now the future, once it comes, will become the past, whereas you are unchanging, your years can never fail. ..Your years are completely present to you all at once, because they are at a permanent standstill. They do not move on ... Your today is eternity...You made all time; you are before all time; and the "time," if such we may call it, when there was not time, was not time at all."
Augustine's Confessions
book 11 pp. 261, 263