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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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The Heavenly City outshines Rome, beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
A good conscience is the palace of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints.
In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.
The light will not shame you, if it shows you your own ugliness, and that ugliness so offends you that you perceive the beauty of the light.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Variant: To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations (1991)
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium, maxime dicentes vera, cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum animam deceptam, pacto quodam societatis irretiant.
For God loves to save and not to condemn; therefore is he patient with evil, that out of evil good may be brought.
The superfluity of the rich is necessary to the poor. If you hold on to superfluous items, then, your are keeping what belongs to someone else.
O sons of Peace, sons of the One Catholic [Church], walk in your way, and sing as you walk. Travelers do this in order to keep up their spirits.
God "worships" us in the sense of tending our worth.
We are members of this Head, and this body cannot be decapitated. If the Head is in glory forever, so too are the members in glory forever, that Christ may be undivided forever.
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
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