Augustine of Hippo Quotes

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Augustine of Hippo
O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread...

Augustine of Hippo
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Augustine of Hippo
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith.

Augustine of Hippo
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved... They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

Augustine of Hippo
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

Augustine of Hippo
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Augustine of Hippo
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Augustine of Hippo
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Augustine of Hippo
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures... And many live by these three things in solitude without books.

Augustine of Hippo
Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

Augustine of Hippo
The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Augustine of Hippo