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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inspiring philosophical justice
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
wine poetry devil
Poetry is the Devil's wine.
forgiveness thinking forgive-me
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
lust catholic purity-and-love
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
guilt tears stains
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
christian-inspirational understanding understood
If you understood him, it would not be God.
philosophical eulogy doe
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
desire may saint
This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
philosophical live-well wells
To seek the highest good is to live well.
eye movement modesty
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.
vanity evil soul
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
needs lord goodness
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
philosophical believe soul
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
fall heart suspense
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.