Inspirational Quotes by Augustine - page 60

Augustine

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.

“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due his neighbor; nor has any man a right to be so immersed in active life as to neglect the contemplation of God.”

“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance is called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.”

“Anyone wants to be true what one loves”

“I write because I've made progress and I make progress because I write.”

topics: writers-on-writing

“People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.”

“266. "Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of the faith is to see what we believe.”

“The prodigal son of the Scriptures went to live in a distant land to waste in dissipation all the wealth which his father had given him when he set out. But, to reach that land, he did not hire horses, carriages, or ships; he did not take to the air on real wings or set one foot before the other. For you were the Father who gave him riches. You loved him when he set out and you loved him still more when he came home without a penny. But he set his heart on pleasure and his soul was blinded, and this blindness was the measure of the distance he travelled away from you, so that he could not see your face.”

topics: spirituality , theology-quotes

“Nevertheless, howsoever it be, however incomprehensible and inexplicable, I am very certain that I well remember this very forgetfulness by which whatever we remember is concealed.”

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

topics: wisdom-quote

“Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. ― Augustine”

“He who is filled with love is filled with God himself”

“Tu excitas, ut laudare te delectet, quia fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te.”

“Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence.”

topics: inspirational , religious-faith

“Your good spirit moved over the waters. But he was not upheld by them as though he rested upon them, for when he is said to rest upon a man, it is he who gives that man rest in himself. It was your incorruptible and immutable will, which is sufficient in itself and to itself, that moved over the life which you had created. To that life living and living in happiness are not one and the same, because it lives even in its state of fluidity and darkness. To gain happiness it must still be turned from that state towards God, its Creator. It must live ever closer to the Fountain of life. In his light it must see the light; in him it must be given perfection, splendor, and bliss.”

“True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times.”

topics: absolutes , relativism , values

“Give, O Lord, what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.”

topics: prayers

“The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes – yes, it truly includes – includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins, and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows.”

“You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

“For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.”

topics: death , judgment

“Het geheugen moet zoiets zijn als een maag voor de gedachten, het vergane geluk en plezier en verdriet zijn als ranzig of verzuurd eten - overgelaten aan het geheugen belandt alles in een soort maag, het eten bewaard maar de smakelijkheid ervan niet. Misschien is het dwaas om te zeggen dat het geheugen en de maag overeenkomsten vertonen. Maar volstrekt verschillend zijn ze allerminst.”

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