Augustine of Hippo
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, — although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.- Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum.
- Love the sinner and hate the sin.
- Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211
- Love the sinner and hate the sin.
- An unjust law is no law at all.
- On Free Choice Of The Will, Book 1, § 5
- Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
- As quoted in "Select Proverbs of All Nations" by "Thomas Fielding" (John Wade), 1824, p. 216.
- Variant: "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
- When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday.
- Epistle 36, to Casulanus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- May be related to:
- When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
- Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 4, Membrane 2, Subsection 1.
- Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, — although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- Works, Vol. iii. In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr. 5, Section 15, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- May be related to:
- The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
- Francis Bacon, 'Advancement of Learning, Book ii (1605)
- The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
- Diogenes Laërtius, Lib. vi. section 63
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light, — although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- My mother spoke of Christ to father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at, the close of his life to Christ.
- Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 351
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- As quoted in Distilled Wisdom: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 270
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
- As quoted in Quote, Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory, p. 197
- 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 the way they are.
- As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- As quoted in The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations: with English translations (1990) by Norbert Guterman, p. 375
- One does not read in the Gospel that the Lord said: "I will send you the Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon." For He willed to make them Christians, not mathematicians.
- As quoted in Science Teaching : The Role of History and Philosophy of Science (1994) by Michael R. Matthews, p. 195
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
- As quoted in The Wisdom of the Heart: A Celebration of Timeless Lessons About Love (1997) by Criswell Freeman
Confessiones (c. 397)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.- The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
- I, 7
- Nos fecisti ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
- You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
- I, 1
- I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.
- II, 4
- Already I had learned from thee that because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Nor, again, is it necessarily true because rudely uttered, nor untrue because the language is brilliant. Wisdom and folly both are like meats that are wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words are like town-made or rustic vessels — both kinds of food may be served in either kind of dish.
- V, 6
- Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
- Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.
- I read there [in "certain books of the Platonists"] that God the Word was born "not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor the will of the flesh, but of God." But, that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" — I found this nowhere there.
- VII, 9
- At ego adulescens miser ualde, miser in exordio ipsius adulescentiae, etiam petieram a te castitatem et dixeram, 'Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo.'
- As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- VIII, 7
- Tolle lege, tolle lege
- Take up and read, take up and read
- VIII, 12
- But the inner part is the better part; for to it, as both ruler and judge, all these messengers of the senses report the answers of heaven and earth and all the things therein, who said, "We are not God, but he made us." My inner man knew these things through the ministry of the outer man, and I, the inner man, knew all this — I, the soul, through the senses of my body. I asked the whole frame of earth about my God, and it answered, "I am not he, but he made me."
- X, 6
- Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
- X, 27, as translated in Theology and Discovery: Essays in honor of Karl Rahner, S.J. (1980) edited by William J. Kelly
- Variant translations:
- So late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! So late I loved you!
- The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett (2007), by Lee Oser, p. 29
- Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.
- Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion (1970) by Alice Von Hildebrand
- Da quod iubes, et iube quod vis
- Give what you command, and command what you will. You impose continency on us.
- X, 29
- There is another form of temptation, more complex in its peril. … It originates in an appetite for knowledge. … From this malady of curiosity are all those strange sights exhibited in the theatre. Hence do we proceed to search out the secret powers of nature (which is beside our end), which to know profits not, and wherein men desire nothing but to know.
- 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.
- XI, 14
- You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.
City of God (early 400s)
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave...- Thus, in this universal catastrophe, the sufferings of Christians have tended to their moral improvement, because they viewed them with eyes of faith.
- I, 9
- Virtue and vice are not the same, even if they undergo the same torment.
- I, 8
- The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation.
- I, 8
- The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
- IV, 3
- What are kingdoms but large-scale terrorist gangs? ... There was truth as well as neatness in what the captured pirate said to Alexander the Great when Alexander asked him what business he had to infest the sea, and he defiantly replied: "The same as you have to infest the world. Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor."
- IV, 4, as quoted in Augustine (1989) by Christopher Kirwan
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