Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, Blessed Augustine, and the Doctor of Grace, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius, located in Numidia. He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are The City of God and Confessions...
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faith spiritual prayer
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
men scary submissive
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
spiritual light fire
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
love life sympathy
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
catholic praying
To sing is to pray twice.
morning mirrors weather
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.
god faith falling-in-love
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
christian heart thinking
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
too-much
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
prayer lord thee
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
truth taken lips
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
war men enemy
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
prayer littles
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
fall humility order
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.