“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion (c. 420), Ch. 27

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.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”

“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”