# “Your Today is eternity” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)

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- Published: 2025-09-21T05:00:00-05:00
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“Our years will be complete only when there are none left.

But Your years are a single day, and this day of Yours is not a daily recurrence,
but a simple ‘_Today_,’ because your Today does not give way to tomorrow, nor follow
yesterday.

Your Today is eternity.”

–Saint Augustine, [_The Confessions, Part I, ed. John E. Rotelle, trans. Maria Boulding, Second Edition, vol. 1, The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century_](https://amzn.to/41Yzhda)(
Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2012), 1: 295.

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