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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skills catholic given
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
two-friends judging losing-friends
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will...
faith doubt elements
Doubt is but another element of faith.
eye thinking light
Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.
assessment lord knows
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
interesting action christianity
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
heart mean evil
Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to you own but correct your will to that of God. The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of being converted and of correcting your evil ways.
hate dove quarrels
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
trough
One can't reach the Truth but trough Love.
law unjust moral-responsibility
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
book cities saint
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
want lord easy
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
real accomplishment grace
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
bible christian yield
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.