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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men doubt wicked
If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
heaven rewards results
Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
children sake partners
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
stress challenges pressure
I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.
serpent foolishness
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
light soul needs
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.
life art men
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
walking
Things are solved by walking around.
lust atheism capricious
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.
risk awful way
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
errors humans devilish
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
god-love
Love God, then do what you will.
christian disease demon
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
mother joy age
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?