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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philosophical catholic needs
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
inspirational catholic special
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
beauty thinking catholic
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
faith believe catholic
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
philosophical perfect catholic
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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.
catholic praying
To sing is to pray twice.
art catholic empty
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
sheep miracle catholic
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.
names house catholic
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
catholic
Beware of bad Catholics.
happy-life catholic path
Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
covered-up catholic scandal
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
men catholic made
Only He who made man makes man happy.