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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believe miracle world
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
two knowledge-of-god world
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
world this-world bubbles
This world's a bubble.
happiness world want
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
world evolution creation
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
children sun world
A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
science world made
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
world verdict
The world's verdict is conclusive.
world verdict
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
our-world heaven return
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
angel world this-world
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.
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.