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...
ProfessionSaint
walking
Things are solved by walking around.
lust atheism capricious
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
risk awful way
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
errors humans devilish
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
god-love
Love God, then do what you will.
christian disease demon
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
mother joy age
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
flames numbers people
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
people victory hippo
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
catholic
Beware of bad Catholics.
wish ask-me asks
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not ....
broken doubtful regard
When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
weight
My weight is my love.
men nature-of-man cursed
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man