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Writings of Augustine of Hippo

  • Confessions

    Authorship: authentic · c. 397–400 · The Confessions of Saint Augustine

  • The City of God

    Authorship: authentic · c. 413–426 · The City of God

Quotation registry

  • verified

    “You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

    Book I, chapter 1 · The Confessions of Saint Augustine

  • verified

    “Love, and do what you will.”

    Homily 7, section 8 · Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John

  • misattributed

    “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

    Draft: locate the maxim's earliest printed form · Scintillae Ignatianae