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
lions moral sanity
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
faith time people
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
love hate forgiving
That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
love beauty wedding
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
life song lips
Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.
christian past mercy-of-god
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
christian adversity anxiety
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
forever soul catholic
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
humility giving effort
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
cost obedience disobedience
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
love break-up broken-heart
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
fall worry welcome
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.
inspirational faith spiritual
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
dance angel heaven
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.