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"Augustine of Hippo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... storm, felt still more deeply the disappointment in its new power, the Cross, which had failed to protect its Church. The outcry against the Cross became so loud among Christians that its literary champion, Bishop Augustine of Hippo — a town between Algiers and Tunis — was led to write a famous treatise in defence of the Cross, familiar still to every scholar, in which he defended feebly the mechanical value of the symbol — arguing only that pagan symbols equally failed — but insisted on its spiritual value ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
... say the same of incredulity, and he that uses the word impossible outside of pure mathematics is lacking in prudence. It should be remembered that Lactantius proclaimed belief in the existence of antipodes inane, and Saint Augustine of Hippo added that in any case there could be ...
— The Magician • Somerset Maugham |
Words linked to "Augustine of Hippo" : Church Father, father, Church of Rome, theologiser, Roman Catholic, theologist, Father of the Church, Western Church, St. Augustine, doctor, saint, Doctor of the Church, Roman Catholic Church, theologizer, theologian, Roman Church |
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