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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books-and-reading travel
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
men vacuums christ
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
faith
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
thinking scripture doe
Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
omnipotence evil goodness
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
Love and say it with your life.
love-you mean love-is
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. This alone I know, that without you all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but penury, if it is not my God.
fall gods-will
He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
christian math science
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
eye blood holy-eucharist
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction
love faith christian
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
love-is unconditional gods-love
God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
punishment medicine suffering
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.