More from Augustine of Hippo

  1. 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…
  2. Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remai…
  3. 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 wou…
  4. If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you.
  5. What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and w…
  6. An unjust law is no law at all.
  7. We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
  8. Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbi…

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