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Saint Augustine

Augustine of Hippo (/ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was an early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius in north Africa and 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, On Christian Doctrine and Confessions.

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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

Actual, Men, Pain, Teaching, Worship

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

Desire, God, Heart, Satisfied

One loving heart sets another on fire.

Fire, Heart, Loving, Sets

. . . at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

Beginning, Christian, Flowed, Sleep, Taken

Attract them by the way you live.

Attract, Live, Way

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body. ' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

Adored, Body, Flesh, Hands, Holy Eucharist, Saying

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Catholic, Peace, Purpose, War, Wars

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

Heaven, Humility, Kingdoms, Reaches

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Glory, Know, Lord, Men

The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

Explicit, Giving, Human, Law, Limited Time

Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

Blessed, Body, Carrying, Mary, Mind, Truth

Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

Father, Manner, Order, Rock, Rocks, Translation

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

Beginners, Mature, Meaning, Way

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

Lege, Read, Take, Tolle

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Future, Past, Present, Three, Variation

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Attribute, Contentment, Displeasing, Elements, Soul

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Angel, Character, Hear, Philosophical, Resigned, Sighs

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

Execution, Hands, Instantly, Move, Moving, Order

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. '

Alone, Blessed, Glorious, Heart, Men

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.

Angel, Choir, God, Holiday, Inspirational, Joy

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