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
Whoever possesses God is happy.
taken justice politics
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
beautiful voice doe
Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.
science world made
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
poverty consumerism overconsumption
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
justice kingdoms gang
What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.
justice our-love
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
cities body
Every city is a living body.
giving needs stewardship
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
inspiration men arrogance
Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.
catholic true-religion
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
truth excellent ifs
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
brother real light
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.
son blood dear
Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.