Wisdom from St. Augustine

 
 
 

For we do not yet see our good, and, as a consequence, we must seek it by believing. Nor is it in our power to live rightly by our own efforts unless we are helped in believing and praying by the one who gave us the very faith by which we believe that we must have his help.

—St. Augustine of Hippo

from the book, The City of God

 

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A TRUE CLASSIC

Few books have impacted the West as deeply as The City of God. This volume offers a shorter, simpler road through Augustine’s masterpiece. Edited by Hans Urs von Balthasar, it presents key selections from The City of God, culled for their beauty and spiritual power, buttressed with notes, and arranged by theme—from the creation of the world to the Roman Empire, from human happiness to the nature of death.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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