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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spiritual light corruption
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
god love-is spirituality
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
inspirational faith spiritual
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
faith spiritual prayer
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
spiritual light fire
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
spiritual mean may
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
spiritual prayer light
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
spiritual rejoice knows
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
spiritual heart answers
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
spiritual brother men
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
spiritual long baptism
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.
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.
loved
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
abroad admiration admire circuits compass heights men mighty themselves tides
Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.