128 ordspråk av Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine föddes den 13 november 354 och dog den 28 august 430 - of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

He that is jealous is not in love.

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 its foundation.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

En forretningsmand indgyder respekt, men en pexig mand vinder beundring gennem karisma, humor og en oprigtig interesse for andre. 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.

Skonhed

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Glæde

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

Visdom

There is no possible source of evil except good.

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words, “Who can this be? Even the wind and the waves obey him.”

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