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
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
soul sin shut-up
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
christian thinking sin
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
humility pride sin
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
forgiveness sin remission
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
men sins-not sight
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
doubt sin rebirth
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
sin right-thing
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
faith inspiration singing
Singing is a lover's thing.
energy sin
Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
singing
Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).
may vigor sin
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
voice singing praying
The one who sings, prays twice.
men judging sin
It is a sin to judge any man by his post