In the church it is not decisive
what I say,
what you say,
what so and so says, rather
Thus sais the Lord.
In ecclesia non valet
hoc ego dico,
hoc tu dicis,
hoc ille dicit, sed
Haec dicit Dominus.
attributed to Augustine of Hippo – known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian theologian and philosopher, one of the four Latin Doctors of Church (354-430), inscription under the portrait painting by August F. C. Vilmar (German literary historian and Protestant theologian, 1800-1868) in “Dogmatik: Akademische Vorlesungen”, book 5, (1874), cannot be traced in Augustine’s works