The City of God Quotes

“So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The City of God: Books 1-10

“Thus the good person is free, even if a slave, and the evil person is enslaved, even if a ruler — enslaved not to one master but, what is far worse, to as many masters as he has vices. It”
― Augustine of Hippo, The City of God: Books 1-10

“...nothing could perish on earth save what they would be ashamed to carry away from earth.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The City of God, Book I