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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limits doe reason
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
littles way doe
He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
law wicked delight
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
paradise hell mercy
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
science world made
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
purpose gains merit
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
father son hands
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
humility merit sufficiency
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
memories
By and by never comes.
death suicide children
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
suicidal hands law
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
suffering doe serving-others
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
brother believe trying
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
aging knows ifs
What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.