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Saint Augustine

b: Agate, Numidia, Nov 13, 354

d: Hippo, Numidia, Aug 28, 430

Roman. Religious Figure. Philosopher. Early bishop regarded as founder of Christian theology; defended orthodoxy in extensive writings: City of God, 413-416.

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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.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what he is.

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 his feeling, the movements of his heart.