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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Love the sinner and hate the sin.

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Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out.

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How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Weal...

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What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me neither rest nor peace of mind. My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I fou...

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If you understood him, it would not be God.

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We speak, but it is God who teaches.

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What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...

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But in their turn, before the hour comes, let them listen also to what the Apostle says to them: ‘You were once darkness, and now youa re light in the Lord’ (Eph 5:8). Let them awaken according to the admonition of our Psalm. Already the mountain...

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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

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There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!

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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.

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But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do not see it, for on account of their sins t...

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For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.

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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

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When it happens that I am more moved by the song than the thing which is sung, I confess that I sin in a manner deserving punishment

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Celui qui se perd dans sa passion perd moins que celui qui perd sa passion.

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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

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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