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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used idolatry ought
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
safe christ seems
Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.
prayer may lord
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
stars heart humble
For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.
nature stars ocean
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.
exercise suffering wicked
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
suicide book suicidal
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.
love-you ancient late
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
men judging sin
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
love
Love and do as you will.
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
friendship hands two-friends
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
kings freedom philosophical
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
life spring love-is
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.