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...
ProfessionSaint
christian past mercy-of-god
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
giving suffering want
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
believe heaven soul
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
believe long healthy
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
giving command
Give what You command and command what You will.
believe may hippo
Believe that you may understand,
mean men suffering
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
two knowledge-of-god world
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
men temptation understanding
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
men good-man wicked
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse- the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
men two suffering
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
believe order human-nature
I believe in order to understand
fall gods-will
He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
past medicine suffering
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.