Syntopi.com · Augustine

Passages by work

City of God17 passages

City of God, BK i-x 129a-322a,c passim; BK xvm, CH 8-19 475d-482c; CH 21 482d-483b; CH 24 485a-b …✓ correct

The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city,--a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK vin-xn 264b,d- 360a,c✓ correct

In the five former books, I think I have sufficiently disputed against those who believe that the many false gods, which the Christian truth shows to be useless images, or unclean spirits and pernicious demons, or certainly creatures, not the Creator, are to be worshipped for the advantage of this mortal life, and of terrestrial affairs, with that rite and service which the Greeks call latreia,… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xx, CH n 541a-c BK in, CH 37, 673d-674a / Christian Doctrine,✓ correct

Intending to speak, in dependence on God's grace, of the day of His final judgment, and to affirm it against the ungodly and incredulous, we must first of all lay, as it were, in the foundation of the edifice the divine declarations. Those persons who do not believe such declarations do their best to oppose to them false and illusive sophisms of their own, either contending that what is adduced… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK vii, CH 30, 261d; BK vni, CH 24, 283a-b; BK x, CH 15 308a-b; CH 21 311c~312a; BK xn, CH 27 359c-360a,c; BK xvi, CH 5-6, 426a-c …✓ correct

It will be the duty of those who are endowed with quicker and better understandings, in whose case the former books are sufficient, and more than sufficient, to effect their intended object, to bear with me with patience and equanimity whilst I attempt with more than ordinary diligence to tear up and eradicate depraved and ancient opinions hostile to the truth of piety, which the long-continued… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xn, CH 21 357a- b; CH 27 359c-360a,c; BK xvi, CH 7 427a-b✓ correct

It is the decided opinion of all who use their brains, that all men desire to be happy. But who are happy, or how they become so, these are questions about which the weakness of human understanding stirs endless and angry controversies, in which philosophers have wasted their strength and expended their leisure. To adduce and discuss their various opinions would be tedious, and is unnecessary.… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BKXII.CH n 349a-b; BK xvi, CH 7 427a-b✓ correct

It is difficult to discover from Scripture, whether, after the deluge, traces of the holy city are continuous, or are so interrupted by intervening seasons of godlessness, that not a single worshipper of the one true God was found among men; because from Noah, who, with his wife, three sons, and as many daughters-in-law, achieved deliverance in the ark from the destruction of the deluge, down to… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK v, CH 12, 218d- 219b✓ correct

Since, then, it is established that the complete attainment of all we desire is that which constitutes felicity, which is no goddess, but a gift of God, and that therefore men can worship no god save Him who is able to make them happy,--and were Felicity herself a goddess, she would with reason be the only object of worship,--since, I say, this is established, let us now go on to consider why… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK n, par 12 llc-d / City of God, BK xxii, CH 24, 61 la✓ correct

As we promised in the immediately preceeding book, this, the last of the whole work, shall contain a discussion of the eternal blessedness of the city of God. This blessedness is named eternal, not because it shall endure for many ages, though at last it shall come to an end, but because, according to the words of the gospel, "of His kingdom there shall be no end." Neither shall it enjoy the mere… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK n, par 12 llc-d / City of God, BK n, CH 21, 161b-c; BK xvn, CH 14, 464d; BK xxn, CH 19, 605 b✓ correct

Of the bliss of Paradise, of Paradise itself, and of the life of our first parents there, and of their sin and punishment, many have thought much, spoken much, written much. We ourselves, too, have spoken of these things in the foregoing books, and have written either what we read in the Holy Scriptures, or what we could reasonably deduce from them. And were we to enter into a more detailed… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xi, CH 10, 328c-d✓ correct

Scripture, which excels all the writings of all nations by its divine authority, and has brought under its influence all kinds of minds, and this not by a casual intellectual movement, but obviously by an express providential arrangement. For there it is written, "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." And in another psalm we read, "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK iv, CH 18 197c- 198a✓ correct

Having begun to speak of the city of God, I have thought it necessary first of all to reply to its enemies, who, eagerly pursuing earthly joys and gaping after transitory things, throw the blame of all the sorrow they suffer in them--rather through the compassion of God in admonishing than His severity in punishing--on the Christian religion, which is the one salutary and true religion. And since… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xix, CH 7 515a-c; CH 17, 522d✓ correct

As I see that I have still to discuss the fit destinies of the two cities, the earthly and the heavenly, I must first explain, so far as the limits of this work allow me, the reasonings by which men have attempted to make for themselves a happiness in this unhappy life, in order that it may be evident, not only from divine authority, but also from such reasons as can be adduced to unbelievers,… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK ix, CH 4 287a- 288 b; BK x, CH 21 311c-312a; BK xix, CH 4 511a-513cesp512b-513c✓ correct

Some have advanced the opinion that there are both good and bad gods; but some, thinking more respectfully of the gods, have attributed to them so much honor and praise as to preclude the supposition of any god being wicked. But those who have maintained that there are wicked gods as well as good ones have included the demons under the name "gods," and sometimes though more rarely, have called… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xiv, CH 6380b-c✓ correct

We have already stated in the preceding books that God, desiring not only that the human race might be able by their similarity of nature to associate with one another, but also that they might be bound together in harmony and peace by the ties of relationship, was pleased to derive all men from one individual, and created man with such a nature that the members of the race should not have died,… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xii, CH 13, 3$0b-✓ correct

It has already, in the preceding book, been shown how the two cities originated among the angels. Before I speak of the creation of man, and show how the cities took their rise so far as regards the race of rational mortals I see that I must first, so far as I can, adduce what may demonstrate that it is not incongruous and unsuitable to speak of a society composed of angels and men together; so… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK ii, CH 21 161b- 162d; BK xix, CH 21 524a-525a✓ correct

If the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines, as to a health-giving medicine, until it obtained from God, by its faith and piety, the grace needed to heal it, they who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture. But this… Read the rest of this passage →

City of God, BK xxi, CH 16 573b- 574a✓ correct

I Propose, with such ability as God may grant me, to discuss in this book more thoroughly the nature of the punishment which shall be assigned to the devil and all his retainers, when the two cities, the one of God, the other of the devil, shall have reached their proper ends through Jesus Christ our Lord, the Judge of quick and dead. And I have adopted this order, and preferred to speak, first… Read the rest of this passage →

Cited under: Angel · Animal · Aristocracy · Art · Astronomy · Beauty · Being · Cause · Chance · Change · Citizen · Courage · Custom And Convention · Definition · Desire · Duty · Element · Emotion · Evolution · Experience · Family · Fate · God · Good And Evil · Government · Habit · Happiness · History · Honor · Idea · Immortality · Infinity · Justice · Knowledge · Labor · Language · Law · Liberty · Life And Death · Love · Man · Medicine · Metaphysics · Mind · Monarchy · Nature · Necessity And Contingency · One And Many · Opinion · Opposition · Philosophy · Pleasure And Pain · Poetry · Principle · Progress · Prophecy · Prudence · Punishment · Quality · Quantity · Relation · Religion · Revolution · Rhetoric · Same And Other · Science · Sense · Sign And Symbol · Sin · Slavery · Soul · Space · State · Temperance · Truth · Tyranny · Universal And Particular · Virtue And Vice · War And Peace · Wealth · Will · Wisdom · World

Confessions11 passages

Confessions, BK xn 99b-110d lp AQUINAS: Summa Theologica, PART i, Q 22, A 3, ANS 130d-131c; Q 45, A 5, ANS 245c-247a; Q 47, A i, ANS 256a-257b; Q 50, A 3, ANS 272a- 155c-156a; BK vni, 266c-d✓ correct

Power of my soul, enter into it, and fit it for Thee, that Thou mayest have and hold it without spot or wrinkle. This is my hope, therefore do I speak; and in this hope do I rejoice, when I rejoice healthfully. Other things of this life are the less to be sorrowed for, the more they are sorrowed for; and the more to be sorrowed for, the less men sorrow for them. For behold, Thou lovest the truth,… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK xii 99b-110d; BK xin t par 4 lllc / City of God, BK xi 322b,d- 342a,c; BK xxii, CH i 586b,d-587b A 5, ANS and REP i 245c-247a; Q 47, A i, ANS 256a-257b; A 2, ANS 257b-258c; Q 50, AA 1-3 269b-273b; Q 61 314d-317c; Q 62, A i 317d- 318c; A 3 319c-320b; Q 65, AA 3-4 341c-343c; Q 66, A 3, ANS and REP 3 347b-348d; A 4, ANS and REP i 348d-349d; Q 67, A 4, ANS and REP 4 352a-354a; Q 85, A i, ANS 451c-453c; Q 90,✓ correct

Lord, touched with the words of Thy Holy Scripture, is much busied, amid this poverty of my life. And therefore most times, is the poverty of human understanding copious in words, because enquiring hath more to say than discovering, and demanding is longer than obtaining, and our hand that knocks, hath more work to do, than our hand that receives. We hold the promise, who shall make it null? If… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK iv, par 24-27 25b-26a; BK v, par 20 32d-33a; BK x, par 67 88b-c / Cuy of God, BK n, CH 25 165c-166b; BK XH, CH 6 345b-346c …✓ correct

For this space of nine years (from my nineteenth year to my eight-and-twentieth) we lived seduced and seducing, deceived and deceiving, in divers lusts; openly, by sciences which they call liberal; secretly, with a false-named religion; here proud, there superstitious, every where vain. Here, hunting after the emptiness of popular praise, down even to theatrical applauses, and poetic prizes, and… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK xi, par 7 90d-91a✓ correct

Thou see in time, what passeth in time? Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations? Not, of a truth, that Thou mightest learn them through me, but to stir up mine own and my readers’ devotions towards Thee, that we may all say, Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. I have said already; and again will say, for love of Thy love do I this. For we pray also, and yet Truth hath… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK i, par 20-24 6a- 7a / City of God, BK vm, CH 3-4 266a-267c✓ correct

Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK v, par 3-6 27c-28c / Christian Doctrine, BK n, CH 29 650d-651c✓ correct

Thou hast formed and stirred up to confess unto Thy name. Heal Thou all my bones, and let them say, O Lord, who is like unto Thee? For he who confesses to Thee doth not teach Thee what takes place within him; seeing a closed heart closes not out Thy eye, nor can man’s hard-heartedness thrust back Thy hand: for Thou dissolvest it at Thy will in pity or in vengeance, and nothing can hide itself… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK vii, par 1-2 43b- 44a; par 7 45a-d; par 16 48c-49a; par 20 49d; par 26 51c-d; BK xn, par 5-6 lOOa-c; par 8 lOla-b; par 16 102d-103a; par 18-22 103a- 104b; par 24-26 104c-105b; par 28-30 105c- 106c; par 38-40 108d-110a; BK xni, par 48 124a / City of God, BK xi, CH 10 327d-328d✓ correct

Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into early manhood; the more defiled by vain things as I grew in years, who could not imagine any substance, but such as is wont to be seen with these eyes. I thought not of Thee, O God, under the figure of a human body; since I began to hear aught of wisdom, I always avoided this; and rejoiced to have found the same in the… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK n, par 14 12a-b; BK ix, par i 61c-d / City of God, BK i, CH 8-9 133a-135a; BK iv, CH 33 206c-d; BK v, CH i-n 207d-216d; CH 21-22 226a 227a …✓ correct

Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea, let all my bones say, O Lord, who is like unto Thee? Let them say, and answer Thou me, and say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Who am I, and what am I? What evil have not been either my deeds, or if not my deeds, my words, or if not my… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK vi, par 13 39a-c / City of God, BK ix, CH 4-5 287a-289a; BK xix, CH 4 511a-513c✓ correct

Thou, my hope from my youth, where wert Thou to me, and whither wert Thou gone? Hadst not Thou created me, and separated me from the beasts of the field, and fowls of the air? Thou hadst made me wiser, yet did I walk in darkness, and in slippery places, and sought Thee abroad out of myself, and found not the God of my heart; and had come into the depths of the sea, and distrusted and despaired of… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK ii, par 7, lOb; BK vi t par 6-8 36c-37c; BK ix, par 8-12 63c- 65a; BK xi, par 2-5 89c-90c …✓ correct

I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked ways in the very bitterness of my remembrance, that Thou mayest grow sweet unto me (Thou sweetness never failing, Thou blissful and assured sweetness); and gathering me again out of that my dissipation,… Read the rest of this passage →

Confessions, BK viii, par 10-11 55c-56b; BK x, par 41-53 81c-85a✓ correct

God, let me, with thanksgiving, remember, and confess unto Thee Thy mercies on me. Let my bones be bedewed with Thy love, and let them say unto Thee, Who is like unto Thee, O Lord? Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder, I will offer unto Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving. And how Thou hast broken them, I will declare; and all who worship Thee, when they hear this, shall say, “Blessed be the Lord,… Read the rest of this passage →

Cited under: Angel · Animal · Art · Astronomy · Beauty · Being · Cause · Chance · Change · Citizen · Constitution · Courage · Custom And Convention · Desire · Duty · Education · Emotion · Eternity · Experience · Family · Form · God · Good And Evil · Habit · Happiness · History · Honor · Hypothesis · Idea · Immortality · Infinity · Judgment · Justice · Knowledge · Language · Law · Liberty · Life And Death · Logic · Love · Man · Mathematics · Matter · Memory And Imagination · Mind · Nature · Necessity And Contingency · One And Many · Opinion · Opposition · Philosophy · Physics · Pleasure And Pain · Poetry · Progress · Prophecy · Punishment · Quantity · Reasoning · Relation · Religion · Rhetoric · Same And Other · Science · Sense · Sign And Symbol · Sin · Soul · Space · State · Temperance · Theology · Time · Truth · Universal And Particular · Virtue And Vice · Wealth · Will · Wisdom · World

On Christian Doctrine2 passages

Christian Doctrine, BK n, CH 25 649b-d 27 SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets, xxxn 591a-b;✓ correct

1. There are two things on which all interpretation of Scripture depends: the mode of ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making known the meaning when it is ascertained. We shall treat first of the mode of ascertaining, next of the mode of making known, the meaning;--a great and arduous undertaking, and one that, if difficult to carry out, it is, I fear, presumptuous to enter upon.… Read the rest of this passage →

Christian Doctrine, BK iv, CH 3 676a-d✓ correct

1. This work of mine, which is entitled On Christian Doctrine, was at the commencement divided into two parts. For, after a preface, in which I answered by anticipation those who were likely to take exception to the work, I said, "There are two things on which all interpretation of Scripture depends: the mode of ascertaining the proper meaning, and the mode of making known the meaning when it is… Read the rest of this passage →

Cited under: Art · Astronomy · Being · Change · Custom And Convention · Definition · Dialectic · Education · Experience · Family · God · Good And Evil · Habit · History · Idea · Labor · Language · Law · Logic · Man · Mathematics · Medicine · Metaphysics · Nature · Necessity And Contingency · Opinion · Pleasure And Pain · Poetry · Reasoning · Religion · Rhetoric · Science · Sign And Symbol · Truth · Wisdom