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.
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
Truth is not private property.
The reward of patience is patience.
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.
Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
Whoever possesses God is happy.
Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
