Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
Saint Augustine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Saint Augustine
Autobiographer
Historian
Music Theorist
Philosopher
Poet
Preacher
Presbyter
Saint
Theologian
Writer
Treveris
Saint Augustine
Saint Austin
Augustine
St. Augoustinos
St. Augustine of Hippo
Aurelius Augustinus
Aurelius Augustine
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
St. Augustine
Augustinus
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Augustinus
Aurelius
Giving
Exposing
Ridicule
Guard
Interpretation
Opposed
Word
Hazardous
Science
Unbelievers
Must
Interpretations
More quotes by Saint Augustine
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
Saint Augustine
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
Saint Augustine
Your wisdom should be without pride.
Saint Augustine
It is not often that we use language correctly usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
Saint Augustine
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Saint Augustine
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
Saint Augustine
Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
Saint Augustine
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
Saint Augustine
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
Saint Augustine
Give us this day our daily bread, by this day we mean at this time, when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happine
Saint Augustine
Doubt is but another element of faith.
Saint Augustine
You can live, provided you live that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
Saint Augustine
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
Saint Augustine
Love God, then do what you will.
Saint Augustine
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
Saint Augustine
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
Saint Augustine
You are what you love.
Saint Augustine
True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.
Saint Augustine