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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poison dies
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
light darkness ignorant
No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.
giving saint needs
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
love love-is
Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
christian believe belief
If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
jesus suffering christ
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
lord sincere steadfast
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
prayer heart desire
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
omnipotence giving riches
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
philosophical evil judging
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
faith inspiration speaks-out
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
hope daughter two
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
god faith believe
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
belief willing persons
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.