More from Augustine of Hippo

  1. God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
  2. God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
  3. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
  4. He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
  5. 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 …
  6. He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
  7. Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
  8. Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue…

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