About Augustine of Hippo: Augustine of Hippo is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are City of God and Confessions.
Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?
Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.
When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.
There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.
Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.
He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?
And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in eve...
When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.
The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee.
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himse...
This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.
For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy.
...a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith ... to those who try to defame our Holy Scripture. ... when they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture ... either we shall have some ability to demons...
He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.
