God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
Saint AugustineI will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
Saint AugustineThe human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.
Saint AugustineThough he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."
Saint Augustine