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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aging knows ifs
What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.
god ifs
If you comprehend, it is not God.
ifs
If you understand, it is not God.
reverence ifs greater
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
prayer failing ifs
If faith fails, prayer perishes.
cry silent ifs
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
truth excellent ifs
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
ifs
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
art contentment ifs
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
past ifs
If the future and the past really exist, where are they?
vices ladders ifs
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
saint ifs
What do you possess if you possess not God?
success achievement ifs
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
marvel pass people rivers themselves travel
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.