“For God loves to save and not to condemn; therefore is he patient with evil, that out of evil good may be brought.”

About Augustine of Hippo

354 – 430

Early Christian theologian and philosopher, author of "Confessions".

“Love, and do what thou wilt.”

“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”

“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”

“But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”