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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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.
beautiful wise wisdom
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
yoga navigation
We come to God by love and not by navigation.
knowing not-knowing known
God is best known in not knowing him.
funny witty humorous
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
humble humility heart
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
happiness happy determination
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
powerful sleep passion
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.
philosophy judging abuse
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.