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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god blessing mind
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
christian old-testament new-testament
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
soul sin shut-up
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
heart love-is voice
Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.
life faithful asks
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
blessing anxious
God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.
prayer knees straws
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
mother religious children
That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.
philosophical catholic needs
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
powerful reality invisible
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
humility fabric foundation
The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
peace government justice
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
desire habit virtuous
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
running love-is goal
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.