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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devil fool firsts
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
honored virginity
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
mind mental-illness command
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
men giving heaven
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
purpose gains merit
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
paradise hell mercy
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
law wicked delight
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
book usual study
In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.
christian league soul
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
littles way doe
He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
limits doe reason
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
old-habits evil grace
I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.
god faith hope
Every infinity... is made finite to God.
fall vision progress
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.