Digital Logos Edition
This volume contains multiple short works of Augustine’s, exploring the theology, philosophy, and aescetics throughout his life.
For The Fathers of the Church series in its entirety, see Fathers of the Church Series (127 vols.).
“O God, ever the same; may I know myself, may I know Thee. That is my prayer.” (Page 381)
“The chief cause of this error is that man does not know himself.” (Page 241)
“The man without faith is prudent in his own folly.’” (Page 75)
“These things of sense must be forsaken entirely,1 and, as long as we bear this body, we must have care lest our wings be entangled by their sticky lime, as we need whole and faultless wings to fly from this darkness to that light.” (Page 375)
“‘And now the day had come when I was actually released from my professorship of rhetoric, from which I had already been freed in my mind. Thou deliverest my tongue from that from which Thou hadst delivered before my heart.” (Page 30)