Quote #59
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an …
- God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
- Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
- 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.
- He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.