Quotes by Augustine of Hippo

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.
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Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

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But if you do not wish to die of thirst in the desert, drink charity. This is the fountain the Lord has willed to place here, lest we faint on the way, and we shall drink it more abundantly when we come to the Fatherland.

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The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let u...

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A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot

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Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.

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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

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For such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures that, even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else, from boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and with talents greater than I possess, I would sti...

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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

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Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before us so that we may be healed, and follows us so that once healed, we may be given life; it goes before us so that we may be cal...

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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

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if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

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Man himself is a great deep, whose very hairs Thou numberest, O Lord, and they fall not to the ground without Thee. And yet are the hairs of his head easier to be numbered than his feelings, and the beatings of his heart.

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The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.

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Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.

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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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Author Bio

  • NameAugustine of Hippo
  • Descriptionearly Christian theologian and philosopher
  • AliasesSaint Augustine; Saint Austin
  • BornNovember 13, 354
  • DiedAugust 28, 430
  • CountryAncient Rome
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Theologian; Writer; Autobiographer; Music Theorist