Influential quotations from Augustine’s writings

• “Love the sinner and hate the sin ” (Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum) (Opera Omnia, vol II. col. 962, letter 211.), literally “With love for mankind and hatred of sins ” ^[7]
• “Heart Speaks to heart” (Cor ad cor loquitur) ^[8]
• “Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love” (Victoria veritatis est caritas}^[9]
• “To sing once is to pray twice” (Qui cantat, bis orat) literally “he who sings, prays twice” ^[10]
• “Lord, you have seduced me and I let myself be seduced” (quoting the prophet Jeremiah 20.7-9)
• “Love, and do what you will” (Dilige et quod vis fac)(Sermon on 1 John 7, ^[11]
• “Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet” (da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo) (Conf., VIII. vii (17))
• “God, oh Lord, grant me the power to overcome sin. For sin is that which you gave to us when you granted us free choice of will. If I choose wrongly, then I shall be justly punished for it. Is that not true, my Lord, of whom I indebted for my temporal existence. Thank you, Lord, for granting me the power to will my self not to sin.(Free Choice of the Will, Book One)”
• “Christ is the teacher within us” ^[12]
• “Hear the other side”( Audi partem alteram) De Duabus Animabus, XlV ii
• “Rome has spoken; the case is concluded” (Roma locuta est; causa finita est.) (Sermons, Book I)
• “Take it up and Read it” (Tolle, lege) Confessions, Book VIII, Chapter 12
• “There is no salvation outside the church” (Salus extra ecclesiam non est) (De Bapt. IV, cxvii.24)
• “To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” (Multi quidem facilius se abstinent ut non utantur, quam temperent ut bene utantur.) (On the Good of Marriage)
• “We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.” (iii. De Ascensione)
• “Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage: anger so that what cannot be, may not be; and courage, so that what must be, will be.” (citation needed)
• “The great heights reached by men and kept, was not achieved by sudden flight, they while the others slept toiled upwards in the night” The Ladder of St. Augustine

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Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430) is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. In Roman Catholicism and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinian religious order. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fountainheads of Reformation teaching on salvation and grace. In Orthodox Churches he is considered a saint by some while others are of the opinion that he is a heretic, primarily for his statements concerning what became known as the filioque clause. Born in Africa as the eldest son of Saint Monica, he was educated in Rome and baptized in Milan. His works—including The Confessions, which is often called the first Western autobiography—are still read around the world.