Augustine of Hippo Quotes on God
Augustine of Hippo was a Roman-African theologian and philosopher whose work shaped Western Christianity and Latin philosophy for the next millennium. This page collects quotes attributed to Augustine of Hippo on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Augustine of Hippo:
“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
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Attributed to Augustine of Hippo:
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
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“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.”
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“De actis cum Felice Manicheo {AD 404), translated as A Debate with Felix the Manichean , ¶1709, in The Faith of the Early Fathers Vol 3 : St. Augustine to the End of the Patristic Age by W.A. Jurgens, p. 88”
Nowhere in the Gospel do we read that the Lord said: "I am sending you a Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon ." For He wanted to make Christians , not mathematicians .