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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Saint Augustine quotes about
god faith falling-in-love
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
self-esteem lying believe
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
faith inspiration draws
Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.
christian adversity anxiety
In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
weakness
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
love life sympathy
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
desire habit virtuous
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
dance angel heaven
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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.
humility giving effort
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
love break-up broken-heart
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
delight contemplation teach
Teach correctly... Find delight in contemplation.
life faithful asks
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
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.