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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christian prayer procrastination
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
faith inspiration men
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
forgiveness sin remission
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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.
real people way
Salvation is God's way of making us real people.
grace good-work very-good
Grace alone brings about every good work in us.
beauty thinking catholic
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
prayer praying
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
inspirational nature philosophical
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
path walking
Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
faith believe catholic
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
wish reason deny
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
faith christian inspiration
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
baptism new-life repent
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.