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
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.
heart restless restless-heart
Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
philosophical punishment justice
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
wisdom fake-people humility
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
saint ifs
What do you possess if you possess not God?
philosophical character angel
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
success achievement ifs
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
heart people grace
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
giving interpretation ridicule
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
inspirational life positive
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
soul unhappy mortals
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
life advice use
We should never use the truth to wound.
night bruises treasure
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
christian good-life eye
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.