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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knowing not-knowing known
God is best known in not knowing him.
funny witty humorous
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
humble humility heart
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
happiness happy determination
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
powerful sleep passion
There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.
philosophy judging abuse
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
discipline curiosity harsh
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
heart men hair
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
love war enmity
War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.
failing lord confession
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
philosophical heart quiet
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
love romantic beauty
Love is the beauty of the soul.
faith religious believe
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
light sensual mind
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.