Showing posts with label Augustine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Augustine. Show all posts

Augustine on Love

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, April 17, 2017 at 5:30 AM

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

Saint Augustine


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Augustine on Care for Body and Soul

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , , | Posted On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 5:30 AM

"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow."

Augustine


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Augustine on Humility

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, December 11, 2015 at 5:30 AM

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

Augustine

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Augustine on the Gospels

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 5:30 AM

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Augustine


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Augustine on Faith

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, June 13, 2014 at 7:15 AM

“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”

Augustine


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Augustine on Works

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 6:30 AM

"We do the works, but God works in us the doing of the works"

Augustine




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Augustine on Creation

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Friday, April 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM


 ”He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?” 
Augustine


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Augustine on Christ

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all."
Augustine of Hippo

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St. Augustine on Rest

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 8:00 AM

"Lord, thou made us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee."
~ St. Augustine ~

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Augustine of Hippo on Conscience

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"A good conscience is the place of Christ; the temple of the Holy Ghost; the paradise of delight; the standing Sabbath of the saints."
~St. Augustine of Hippo~

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Augustine on Election

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"God chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe".
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

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Augustine on Blessings

Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent."

~ St. Augustine      

 
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Augustine on the Gospel

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM


"You ought to say plainly that you do not believe the gospel of Christ. For to believe what you please, and not to believe what you please, is to believe yourselves, and not the gospel."
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
 
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Augustine on God's Sovereignty

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 4:00 AM

"Grant what thou commandest and command what thou wilt."

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
(from: Confessions)


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