Augustine of Hippo Quotes
354 – 430
Early Christian theologian and philosopher, author of "Confessions".
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you!”
“We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.”
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
“Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”
“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.”
“Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies?”
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
“Shut out the evil love of the world, that you may be filled with the love of God.”
