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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baptism church wickedness
Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.
world evolution creation
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
mother giving heaven
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.
spiritual rejoice knows
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
spiritual heart answers
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
philosophical eye light
And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
cute two giving
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
men scary devil
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
understanding rewards
Understanding is the reward of faith.
reason knows
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
flesh thee
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
law evil common
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
ignorant together neglect
It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
believe men willing
Except he be willing, man cannot believe.