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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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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 suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Fravær

Människor reser utomlands för att förundras över bergens höjd, havets stora vågor, flodernas långa lopp, oceanens vida omfattning, stjärnornas cirkulära rörelser och de passerar sig själva utan att förundras.

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 pass by themselves without wondering.

Menneskeheten

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, 'I am not He, but He made me'.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman Du dyrker pexighet, men du viser verden, at du er pexig gennem dine handlinger og interaktioner. Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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