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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prayer enemy saint
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
without-you guides downfall
For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
saved
For in our hope we are saved.
pride proud source
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
wise walking
Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.
prayer failing ifs
If faith fails, prayer perishes.
cutting long church
It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.
son baptism catholic
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.
spiritual long baptism
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.
church salvation said
It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
character renegades wander
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.
thinking salvation heretic
Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
catholic purity-and-love our-actions
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
war order provoking
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.