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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past ifs
If the future and the past really exist, where are they?
blood body bread
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word
philosophical wilting grants
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
lord teach knows
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
desire disposition temperance
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
faith christian inspiration
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
hurt self-love enemy
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
believe order
Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe
fighting temptation suffering
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.
men sky evil
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
honor worship praise
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
mind desire noble
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
horse philosophical grace
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
art happy-life joy
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.