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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friendship long missing
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
thinking scripture doe
Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
peace government justice
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
faith inspiration men
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
love-is measuring
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
running love-is goal
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.
bible christian home
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
poison dies
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
silence cry refrain
Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
prayer knees straws
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
fire faithful may
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.
eye blood holy-eucharist
What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction
christian feet should
A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot