It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which… - Augustine of Hippo
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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
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Also Known As
Native Name:
Aurelius Augustinus
Alternative Names:
Saint Augustine
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Saint Austin
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Augustine
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St. Augoustinos
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St. Augustine of Hippo
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Aurelius Augustine
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Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
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St. Augustine
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Augustinus
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Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Augustinus, Aurelius
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bishop of Hippo
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
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Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....
