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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evil lust god-love
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
love
Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
judging divine all-things
We judge all things according to the divine truth.
humility pride childhood
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
loss soul fortitude
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
hell made inquisitive
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
elders
The playthings of our elders are called business.
needs be-careful dies
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
mean men stills
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
ifs
If you understand, it is not God.
angel son light
For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.
beautiful god art
What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.
religious eye men
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
inspirational christian religious
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.