Saint Augustine Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Mother, Father

  "The Pilgrim City: Social and Political Ideas in the Writings of St. Augustine of Hippo".

• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Son, Kissing

• What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Watches, Steps

• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Father, Church

• The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

  Saint Augustine

  Religious, Father, Son

• My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Father, Violence

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 351, 1895.

• Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Order, Rocks

  "Our Church, Her Children and Institutions", Volume 1, by Henry Coyle, Angel Guardian Press, Boston, (p. 98), 1908.

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