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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thinking true-joy looks
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
god imagine understand
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
believe faith reward
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
believe boys men
...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.
men function god-image
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
believe men heaven
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.
needs lord goodness
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
men vacuums christ
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
faith
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
believe men willing
Except he be willing, man cannot believe.
world this-world bubbles
This world's a bubble.
men nature-of-man cursed
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
god blessing mind
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.