Famous quotes containing the words saint, augustine and/or church:
“Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past;
Begin these woodbirds but to couple now?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)
“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with his black wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)