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B01. St.Augustine of Hippo

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B01. St.Augustine of Hippo

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Augustine or Saint Augustine of Hippo (897-973 BE./354-430 AD. Born and died in Algeria, North Africa), which was then annexed to the Roman Empire. His writings have had a great influence on Christianity in the Western world and Western philosophy. His works include Confessions, The City of God, On the Trinity, Doctrine of Christianity and Christianity (On Christian Doctrine), about 800 sermons, etc., adapted from the source: en.wikipedia.org and th.wikipedia.org, access date: Dec. 8, 2017.

Augustine: “I asked the earth for God, and it answered me, ‘I am not He’; I asked the sea and the depths and the creeping things, and they answered, ‘We are not the God, seek thou above us.’ I asked the breezy gales, and the airy universe, and all its denizens replied, ‘Anaximenes is mistaken, I am not God’; I asked the heaven, sun, moon, stars, ‘Neither are we,’ say they, ‘the God whom thou sleekest’; and I asked unto all things which stand about the gateways of my flesh (the senses), ‘Ye have told me of my God, that ye are not He; tell me something of Him.’ And they cried with a loud voice, ‘He made us.’” The search goes on until the inward self is questioned, when the answer is “Thy God is unto thee, even the life of thy life.” (Confessions, x. chap. 6).

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