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354–430
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
Also known as: Augustine, City of God, Saint Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo, St Augustine, St. Augustine
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He who created you without you will not justify you without you.
There is one case of death-bed repentance recorded — the penitent thief — that no one should despair; and only one, that no one should presume.
Thus, in this universal catastrophe, the sufferings of Christians have tended to their moral improvement, because they viewed them with eyes of faith.
Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?
Let each look to his own heart: let him not keep hatred against his brother for any hard word; on account of earthly contention let him not become earth.
What is the Church? She is the body of Christ.
Yes, you see the Trinity if you see charity.
If you see charity, you see the Trinity.
We cannot help loving what is beautiful.
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
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.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
What is love's perfection? To love our enemies, and to love them to the end that they may be our brothers.
As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not right now."
Confessions (397)
And, consequently, neither am I deceived in knowing that I know.
When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity (Ps. 30:19).
When I, who conduct this inquiry, love something, then three things are found: I, what I love, and the love itself. … There are, therefore three things: the lover, the beloved and the love.
Give what you command, and command what you will. You impose continency on us.
Confessions (397)
So say people who are not within the Church. What an impudent assertion!
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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