Augustine

Famous quotes containing the word augustine:

    St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.
    —St. Augustine (354–430)

    To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
    —St. Augustine (354–430)