Quotes by : Augustine of Hippo

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed....

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also....

What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you....

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace,....

My soul is like a house, small for you to enter, but I pray you to enlarge it. It is in ruins, but I....

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has....

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than....

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course....

In this universe, even what is called evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends....