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354–430
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
Also known as: Augustine, City of God, Saint Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine, St. Augustine
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Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
What, then, does He say? "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.
Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee.
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The Father willed that these two, the God Christ and the Church, should be one man.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
The full measure of the Passion will not be attained until the end of the world.
The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.
Tell me which of the righteous of that time claimed an altar for himself?
Psalmus Contra Partem Donati - Psalm Against the Donatists (393)
If thou shouldst say, 'It is enough, I have reached perfection,' all is lost. For it is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name “evil.”
What has the Church done to thee, that thou shouldst wish to decapitate her?
Yet not a single one of the righteous withdrew from unity.
Psalmus Contra Partem Donati - Psalm Against the Donatists (393)
"These are both Christ's words and my words."
There is no salvation outside the church.
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
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