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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weed clever hate
Anger is a weed; hate is a tree
spirit god-love holy
Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments.
book eye order
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
love-is measuring
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
humility pride sin
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
godly thinking imagine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
eye light advantage
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
christian prayer procrastination
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
faith inspiration men
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
forgiveness sin remission
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
silence cry refrain
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
real people way
Salvation is God's way of making us real people.
grace good-work very-good
Grace alone brings about every good work in us.
beauty thinking catholic
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.