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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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.
giving suffering want
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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.
good-life
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
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.