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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delight contemplation teach
Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.
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.
progress delay resolve
Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
trust-in-god about-yourself
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
humility pride sin
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
soul sin shut-up
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
friendship long missing
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
peace government justice
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
bible christian home
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
poison dies
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
punishment suffering lasts
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
without-god
God without us will not as we without God cannot.
reflection silence looks
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.