Saint Augustine

St. Augustine (c. 354-430)

"You know indeed how to pull down old structures and build new ones' you, though, have remained in the old, worn-out ruins of yourself, where you should have been pulling down the old structures in yourself, so that you would no longer savor the things of earth."

• From The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part III, vol. 10, translated by Edmund Hill. Sermon: St. Augustine's "Sermon on the Dispute with the Donatists."

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Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE)

"In you there is nothing that we hate, nothing we detest, nothing we abominate, nothing we condemn, except human error."

• From The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part III, vol. 10, translated by Edmund Hill. Sermon: St. Augustine's "Sermon on the Dispute with the Donatists."

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St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE)

"What is it in the soul that causes it to take more pleasure in things that it loves when they are found and recovered than if it has always had them?"

• From St. Augustine's Confessions.

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St. Augustine

"Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."

St. Augustine (Confessions)

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Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE)

"Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?"

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King Alfred the Great

King Alfred the Great (King of Wessex, r. 871-899, and leader of the Anglo-Saxon world during the late 9th-century Viking invasions of Britain)

"Wisdom, humility, caution, moderation, justice, mercy, discretion, constancy, benevolence, chastity and temperance. With these anchors you should fix in God the cable so that it will hold the ship of your mind."

• From Alfred the Great's loose and expanded Old English translation of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, translated to modern English by Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge (Penguin Classics, 2004).

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Porphyry

Porphyry (lived approximately 234-305 CE)

• He was a critic of Christianity in the Roman Empire. One of his most effective tactics was urging for Jesus to be accepted into the pantheon of Roman gods.

This quote is from his work, Philosophy from Oracles
(This section was recorded by Eusebius. Augustine and Lactantius also quoted this section)
Sadly, Porphyry's original Philosophy from Oracles remains lost.

"What I am about to say may seem surprising to some, namely that the gods have proclaimed Christ to be most pious and immortal, and that they remember him in a laudatory way."

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Pope Gregory I "The Great"

Pope Gregory I (c. 540-604)

"My very dear sons, it is better never to undertake any high enterprise than to abandon it when once begun."

• From a letter sent by Pope Gregory I to St. Augustine of Canterbury (c. 596) when the members of the mission to Britain appealed to come home early, included in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (and relevant letters), translated by Leo Sherley-Pride, R. E. Latham and D. H. Farmer (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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