Saint Augustine (354 - 430), Bishop of Hippo, in Algeria, was a philosopher and theologian.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine of Hippo
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.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
