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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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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Shut out the evil love of the world, that you may be filled with the love of God. You are a vessel that was already full: you must pour away what you have, that you may take in what you have not.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit.
And these were the dishes wherein to me, hunger-starven for thee, they served up the sun and the moon.
Confessions (397)
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
During those years I taught the art of rhetoric. Conquered by the desire for gain, I offered for sale speaking skills with which to conquer others.
Surely we will not dare say that these laws are unjust, or rather, that they are not laws at all. For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Give then to the poor; I beg, I advise, I charge, I command you.
When the Head and the members are despised, then the Whole Christ is despised, for the Whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.
Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.
I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
Confessions (397)
The dove loves even when it attacks; the wolf hates even when it flatters.
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