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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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.
long soul doe
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
innocence mercy confession
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
men grace free-will
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
jesus sleep angel
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.
voice giving tongue
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
men blood names
What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men truly have to say: "In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear: "I do not know you!" (Luke 13:26-27). They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.
sin virtue ends
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
beautiful morning order
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.
heaven calling earth
And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?