Augustine of Hippo

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Biography : Christian theologian and philosopher.
Born: 354 - Died: 430
Period:
5th century
4th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Algeria

Augustine of Hippo - Quotes

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Augustine of Hippo - De patientia /

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John /

Love, and do what you will.

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Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

Custom is second nature.
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habit

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.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

time

The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience; the time present of things future is expectation.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
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freedom

The light, queen of colours.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

light

The light, queen of colours.

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For if I am deceived, I am.
Augustine of Hippo - The City of God /

to be

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Augustine of Hippo

There is something in man that even the spirit of man does not know.
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions /

mind

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Augustine of Hippo

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Augustine of Hippo

love

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Augustine of Hippo

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Augustine of Hippo

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Augustine of Hippo

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Augustine of Hippo

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Augustine of Hippo

happiness

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Augustine of Hippo

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Augustine of Hippo

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Augustine of Hippo

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine of Hippo

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Augustine of Hippo

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Augustine of Hippo

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Augustine of Hippo

The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Augustine of Hippo

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Augustine of Hippo

forgiveness

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Augustine of Hippo

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Augustine of Hippo