Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.
Augustine of HippoDesiderium sinus cordis
Augustine of HippoStichwörter: longing
The measure of love is to love without measure.
Augustine of HippoFor I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered
yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he
being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for
I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and
therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved.
And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved
should die wholly.
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Man cannot believe unless he wishes to.
Augustine of HippoLate have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was without.
Augustine of HippoHis knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
Augustine of HippoStichwörter: inspirational philosophy theology
For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.
Augustine of Hippo. . . I would learn to discern and distinguish the difference between presumption and confession, between those who see what the goal is but not how to get there and those who see the way which leads to the home of bliss, not merely as an end to be perceived but as a realm to live in.
Augustine of Hippo... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
Augustine of HippoStichwörter: philosophy theology
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