“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (c. 397), I, 1

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.”

“All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.”

“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything.”

“I say to myself with jealous love that not only is there no one else like Him, but that there could be no one.”

“Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.”

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.”

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”