Quote #47
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- Singing is loving. (Cantare Amantis est)
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- One does not read in the Gospel that the Lord said: 'I will send you the Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon.…
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- Love the sinner and hate the sin (Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum) (Opera Omnia, vol II. col. 962, letter 211.)
- Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?