Augustine of Hippo354–430Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Sermones 4.1.1- VIII, 7
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- XV, 22
- De Patientia chapter 5
- XI, 14
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Often credited to Augustine of Hippo
Quotes often credited to Augustine of Hippo that were said or written by someone else.






