Augustine Of Hippo Quotes

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

For every man, however laudably he lives, yet yields in some points to the lust of the flesh.

Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.

When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.

The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.