Inspirational Quotes by Augustine
“My soul’s house is too meager for you to visit; enlarge it. It is falling down; rebuild it. Inside it are things that would disgust you to see: I confess this, and I know it. But who’s going to clean it? Or rather, to whom else am I going to shout, “Clean away from me, Master, the hidden things that are my own, and spare your slave from the hidden things coming from others!”?*19”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“Cicero, Hortensius, teaching that happiness is not found in physical pleasures of luxurious food, drink, and sex, but in a dedication of the mind to the discovery of truth.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“Tú me dirigías entonces con secretos movimientos de tu providencia y, poco a poco, ibas poniendo ante mis ojos mis funestos errores, para que los viera y los aborreciera.”
― Augustine ,
“But I, a most wretched youth, most wretched from the very start of my youth, had even sought chastity from you, and had said, “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet!” For I feared that you would hear me quickly, and that quickly you would heal me of that disease of lust, which I wished to have satisfied rather than extinguished”
“La sabiduría y la necedad se parecen a los alimentos, que son buenos unos y malos otros, pero se pueden unos y otros servir lo mismo en vasija de lujo que en vasos rústicos y corrientes. La sabiduría y la necedad pueden ofrecerse lo mismo con palabras cultas y escogidas que con expresiones corrientes y vulgares.”
― Augustine ,
“so I had already learned under your tuition that nothing should be regarded as true because it is eloquently stated, nor false because the words sound clumsy.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“It was a day when I was preparing a speech to be delivered in praise of the Emporor; there would be a lot of lies in the speech and they would be applauded by those who knew that they were lies." The Confessions of St. Augustine”
“But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and His other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”
― Augustine ,
from Confessions
“¡Desdichada el alma temeraria que se imaginó que alejándose de ti puede conseguir algo mejor! Se vuelve y se revuelve de un lado para otro, hacia la espalda y boca abajo y todo le es duro, pues la única paz eres tú. Y tú estás ahí, para librarnos de nuestros desvaríos y hacernos volver a tu camino; nos consuelas y nos dices: ¡Vamos! ¡Yo los aliviaré de peso, los conduciré hasta el fin y allí los liberaré!”
― Augustine ,
“Escucha, Señor, mi súplica para que mi alma no se quiebre bajo tu disciplina, ni desmaye en confesar las misericordias con las que me sacaste de mis pésimos caminos. Seas tú siempre para mí una dulzura más fuerte que todas las mundanas seducciones que antes me arrastraban. Haz que te ame con hondura y apriete tu mano con todas las fuerzas de mi corazón, y así me vea libre hasta el fin de todas las tentaciones. 2.”
“When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared with the dignity of Tully. For my inflated pride was repelled by their style, nor could the sharpness of my wit penetrate their inner meaning. Truly they were of a sort to aid the growth of little ones, but I scorned to be a little one and, swollen with pride, I looked upon myself as fully grown.”
“As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and it demands good students, not one who play truant. In this school we learn something every day. We learn something from commandments, something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things are remedies for our wounds and materials for study.”
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“Em certos casos, podemos, pois aprovar que haja alguma dor, mas nunca a podemos amar.”
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Aurelius Augustinus - more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo," or simply "Augustine" - was a philosopher and theologian, and one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than a hundred separate titles.
Augustine took the view that the Biblical text should not be interpreted literally if it contradicts what we know from science and our God-given reason. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of Reformation teaching on salvation and divine grace.