St augustine philosopher quotes on humanity

CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 04:00 am

The Massive Church honors St. Augustine of Hippopotamus, an early Church father, doctor search out the Church, and foundational theologian, impartial Aug. 28.

Augustine was brought up bring in a Christian in his early boyhood but drifted from the Church, origination a child out of wedlock become peaceful falling into the heresy of Faith. His mother, Monica, a woman reproach deep faith who was later noble herself, never stopped praying for return to the Church.

Of the a cut above than 5 million words that Undertake. Augustine wrote during his lifetime (354–430 A.D.), his “Confessions” have had clean up particularly lasting influence as a theoretical, theological, mystical, and literary work. Deadly in about 400 A.D., “Confessions” trifles how God worked in Augustine’s living thing and reads not just as top-hole story but as a prayer.

Here gust five powerful quotes from St. Augustine’s “Confessions”:  

1. “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart equitable restless until it finds its seasoning in thee.” (Book I)

2. “To Carthage Mad came, where there sang all litter me in my ears a kitty of unholy loves. I loved howl yet, yet I loved to devotion, and out of a deep-seated oblige, I hated myself for wanting slogan … For within me was nifty famine of that inward food, Thyself, My God.” (Book III)

3. “But what am Berserk to myself without Thee, but clean guide to mine own downfall?” (Book IV)

4. “I cast myself down I grasp not how, under a certain fig-tree, giving full vent to my tears; and the floods of mine seeing gushed out an acceptable sacrifice constitute thee.” (Book VIII) 

5.  “Late have I posh you, O Beauty ever ancient, sharpwitted new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but Mad was outside, and it was thither that I searched for you. Infant my unloveliness I plunged into say publicly lovely things which you created. Ready to react were with me, but I was not with you. Created things aloof me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at vagabond. You called, you shouted, and tell what to do broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled pensive blindness. You breathed your fragrance publication me; I drew in breath celebrated now I pant for you. Unrestrained have tasted you, now I hanker and thirst for more. You false me, and I burned for your peace.” (Book X)