Saint Augustine Quote by Saint Augustine a Roman bishop ca. 400 A.D

“Then he withdrew in silence, but shaking his head as though inwardly exclaiming, “An Unbeliever.” No! low as I have fallen, I am not…

— Victor Hugo

There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Patience is the companion of wisdom. --Saint Augustine

— Saint Augustine

“I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.”

— Don DeLillo

“Where the African church failed was in not carrying Christianity beyond the Romanized inhabitants of the cities and the great estates, and not sinking…

— Philip Jenkins

“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind…

— Roman Payne

“And I read something else," Jacob goes on. "There was this discussion of the story of Cain and Abel, from the Bible. After Cain…

— Adam Gidwitz

“The most glorious triumphs of the Church have been won in times of persecution. The early church was persecuted for about three hundred years…

— D.L. Moody

“Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don’t be stupid. “Shall we say, then,” he wrote about Genesis, “there was such a sense…

— Kurt Andersen

“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter of the…

— Ronald W. Dworkin

“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all…

— Dan Brown

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow