The City of God, Volume I

 

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“What are kingdoms without justice?    They're just gangs of bandits.” 

“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.” 

Augustine of Hippo 354 -430 AD  was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.