“I do acknowledge You, Lord of heaven and earth. I do praise You for assembling the pieces of my being and for… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“So the will's desire for death is not a desire for nonexistence, but a desire for peace. When someone wrongly believes that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Saviour had not styled us the sugar but the salt of the earth,” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“still the teachings of the philosophers are not the commandments of the gods, but the discoveries of men, who, at the prompting… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of the world, about the motion and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith seeks, understanding finds. This is why the prophet says, ‘Unless you believe, you will not understand” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Run to and fro everywhere, holy fires, beautiful fires; for you are the light of the world, nor are you put under a bushel.… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Let Him do what pleases Him; let Him disclose Himself when it pleases Him! I now commit myself wholly to His care and clemency.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“and even now we labor in our residual gloom, until in your only Son we become your righteousness; for that righteousness is like God's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of the faith is to see what we believe.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
