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
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.
spiritual heart answers
You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
spiritual rejoice knows
We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.
christian mother father
He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.
wisdom knowledge intellectual
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
trust-in-god about-yourself
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
blessed heart men
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'
godly thinking imagine
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
christian order law
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
humility pride sin
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
christian thinking sin
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
life book home
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
soul sin shut-up
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.
belief willing persons
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.