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
art contentment ifs
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
moving believe catholic
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
roots charity good-work
Charity is the root of all good works.
philosophical adversity son
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
humility thinking wish
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
responsibility order political
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
punishment mind disorder
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
father son kissing
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.
time wish ask-me
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
truth-is private-property property
Truth is not private property.
want riches fewer
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
life brother men
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
truth hippo
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
men good-man wicked
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse- the slave of as many masters as he has vices.