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 firsts christianity
Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
past three variation
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
passion men mind
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.
believe firsts
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
reverence ifs greater
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
rewards
The reward of patience Is patience.
men gods-will without-god
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
evil way permit
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
christian stars distance
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
answers findings unanswered
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
evil lazy taught
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!
blessed mind body
Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
blessed noble form
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
love-is roots speak
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.