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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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.
men lazy noses
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
men diversity language
The diversity of language alienates man from man
greatness healthy arrogance
The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
lying men lying-men
Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.
kings slave remains
The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.
ideas explaining clear
I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
suffering too-much want
For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.
men doubt wicked
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
heaven rewards results
Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.