Saint Augustine
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A Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings have had a profound influence on Western Christianity and philosophy. His works, particularly his "Confessions" and "The City of God," address themes such as grace, free will, and the nature of God. His spiritual journey from a life of excess to one of deep faith and devotion serves as an inspiring example of personal transformation, shaping Christian thought for centuries.
Saint Augustine
Quotes
A Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings have had a profound influence on Western Christianity and philosophy. His works, particularly his "Confessions" and "The City of God," address themes such as grace, free will, and the nature of God. His spiritual journey from a life of excess to one of deep faith and devotion serves as an inspiring example of personal transformation, shaping Christian thought for centuries.
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Anger is a weed; hate is a tree.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
