Authors - Augustine of Hippo
Brief Biography
Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 - August 28, 430), also known as St. Augustine was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from Roman Africa. His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1681by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Quote 1690by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Quote 1803by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Quote 2032by Anonymous on 21/01/2011
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Quote 2098by Anonymous on 22/01/2011
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Quote 2156by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Quote 2362by Anonymous on 28/01/2011
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.
Quote 2365by Anonymous on 28/01/2011
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Quote 2430by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Quote 2457by Anonymous on 30/01/2011
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Quote 2741by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Quote 2898by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Quote 3614by Anonymous on 08/02/2011
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Quote 3802by Anonymous on 10/02/2011
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Quote 3968by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Quote 4134by Anonymous on 15/02/2011
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Quote 4712by Anonymous on 26/02/2011
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Quote 4839by Anonymous on 01/03/2011
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
