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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use damnation salvation
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
punishment suffering lasts
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
wish add walks
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
hands always-trying giving
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
heart people grace
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
cost obedience disobedience
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
christian christian-inspirational gods-will
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not
love-is unconditional gods-love
God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
wind sea temptation
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
god knows
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
heart justice soul
To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.
without-god
God without us will not as we without God cannot.
reflection silence looks
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.
order people saving
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.