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Augustine of Hippo Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“If babies are innocent, it is not for lack of will to do harm, but for lack of strength.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Theories of Innocence, Innocence
“My heart grew sombre with grief, and wherever I looked I saw only death. My own country became a torment and my own home a grotesque abode of misery.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Sad, What It Feels Like When Your Friend Dies
“No one can lose you, my God, unless he forsakes you. And if he forsakes you, where is he to go? If he abandons your love, his only refuge is your wrath. Wherever he turns, he will find your law to punish him, for your law is the truth and the truth is yourself.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Christianity, God's Love
“The evil in me was foul, but I loved it. I loved my own perdition and my own faults, not the things for which I committed wrong, but the wrong itself. My soul was vicious and broke away from your safe keeping to seek its own destruction, looking for no profit in disgrace but only for disgrace itself.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Sin
“I lived in misery, like every man whose soul is tethered by the love of things that cannot last and then is agonized to lose them.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Everything Fades, Nothing Lasts, From Dust To Dust
“I did not know that evil is nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Evil, Sin
“My sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in God but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Christianity, Christian Notions of Sin
“We learn better in a free spirit of curiosity than under fear and compulsion.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
Tagged: Learning, Education, Curiosity
“By desiring you are made large enough so that, when the time comes, you will be filled.  ”
— Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John
Tagged: Desire
“A person has a body that is not absolute being because it has no stability in itself.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Expositions of the Psalms
Tagged: Bodyhood, Constnat Change
“We eagerly fill our body with that which it loses.”
— Augustine of Hippo, Once Out of Nature
Tagged: eating, food, Paradoxes of Life
“What is sought with difficulty is discovered with more pleasure.”
— Augustine of Hippo, On Grace and Free Will
Tagged: Challenges, Life
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