Inspirational Quotes by Augustine
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
“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 remain as they are.”
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“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”
“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
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Aurelius Augustinus - more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," or simply "Augustine" - was a philosopher and theologian, and one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than a hundred separate titles.
Augustine took the view that the Biblical text should not be interpreted literally if it contradicts what we know from science and our God-given reason. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation teaching on salvation and divine grace.