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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thinking scripture doe
Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
christian thinking sin
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
godly thinking imagine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
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.
humility thinking design
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.
christian heart thinking
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
thinking long would-be
So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.
book men thinking
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.
thinking salvation heretic
Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
thinking vanity imagination
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
forgiveness thinking forgive-me
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
humility thinking wish
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
stars moon thinking
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
eye thinking light
Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.