Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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Saint Augustine
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About Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis and the Bishop of Hippo Regius. He is generally regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in the history of the Western world, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Saint AugustinePatience is the companion of wisdom.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. T…
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they …
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. T…
He that is jealous is not in love.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicio…
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. T…
Love is the beauty of the soul.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicio…
He that is jealous is not in love.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be…