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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humility heaven kingdoms
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility
humility merit sufficiency
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
talking want what-you-want
Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.
art giving worship
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
believe miracle world
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
lord captives
Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
family depends
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
time ends end-times
Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.
aging knows ifs
What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.
beauty beautiful order
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
substance wickedness matter
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.
men two suffering
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
fall mean self
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.
begging-you giving warning
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.