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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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.
children sake partners
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
stress challenges pressure
I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.
serpent foolishness
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
light soul needs
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.
life art men
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.