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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discipline curiosity harsh
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
heart men hair
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
love war enmity
War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
failing lord confession
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
philosophical heart quiet
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
love romantic beauty
Love is the beauty of the soul.
faith religious believe
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
light sensual mind
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
dance gestures pleasure
All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
ignorance punishment understanding
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
character order people
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
way scripture doe
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
men satan sin
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
ifs
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.