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
christian order law
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
book eye order
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
fall humility order
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
beauty beautiful order
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
father rocks order
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.
moving hands order
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.
angel men order
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
believe order human-nature
I believe in order to understand
character order law
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
war order provoking
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
children order baptism
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.
lying order modesty
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
character order people
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
responsibility order political
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.