Saint Augustine Quotes
Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.
Augustine. "Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental." Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 4, edited by Philip Schaff, translated by Richard Stothert, Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887, p. 129.
Urging compromise and ratification of the Constitution: Franklin was actually too weak to deliver the speech which he had written the night before. It was read for him by James Wilson of Pennsylvania.
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.
