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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educational homeschooling taught
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
blessing men may
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
christian feet should
A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot
self cities two
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.
christian permit omnipotent
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
heart desire satisfied
Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.
philosophical evil firsts
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
love
I was in love with loving.
philosophical men perfection
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
philosophical sins-not forsaken
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
baptized-in baptism fonts
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
funny witty philosophical
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
wish misery habit
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
love heart heaven
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.