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
humility charity
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
people riches lord
Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.
thinking true-joy looks
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
weakness
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
good-life
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
wise wish philosopher
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
sheep
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
life change beautiful
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
pain evil physical-pain
The greatest evil is physical pain.
writing numbers
I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.
gratitude stars ocean
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering... Now, let us acknowledge the wonder of our physical incarnation- that we are here, in these particular bodies, at this particular time, in these particular circumstances. May we never take for granted the gift of our individuality.
Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
safe christ seems
Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.