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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brother real light
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.
son blood dear
Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.
god lovely lovely-things
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
thinking vanity imagination
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
desire debtors demand
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
son riches lifetime
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.
energy sin
Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.
stars rivers sea
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
two reputation neighbour
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
love prayer whole
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
children baptism church
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.
eye self light
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.
men littles bigs
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
heart men memorial
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.