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Sep 2, 2013 · Many people believe that a pet goes to Heaven upon its death. I was curious, what did the Early Church Fathers (e.g., Augustine, John of Damascus, Tertullian, etc.) say about this?
- Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. Saint Augustine. Forever, Catholic, Soul.
- The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. Saint Augustine. Lions, Moral, Sanity.
- A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
- Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. Saint Augustine. Love, God, Jesus.
Feb 15, 2024 · Hence Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. viii, 25) that “the spiritual creatures receive no other interior aid to happiness than the eternity, truth, and charity of the Creator. But if they can be said to be helped from without, perhaps it is only by this that they see one another and rejoice in God, at their fellowship. (ST, I-II., q.4, a.8, resp.)
Once again, Thomas Aquinas repeats the point and quotes Augustine's words.15 But Augustine's claim that the death of animals, as well as their life, was subordinated to our needs, is an oversimplification of Genesis, an oversimplification recently repeated by the British Minister of Agriculture, Mr Selwyn Gummer, exhorting us to eat beef during an epidemic of mad cow disease.
- Richard Sorabji
Aug 28, 2024 · Written in about 400 A.D., St. Augustine of Hippo’s “Confessions” details how God worked in Augustine’s life.
Augustine, though the Saint often found him somewhat trying with his seemingly endless questions, says in a letter to Augustine : 4 Our friends whom we have sent on ahead of us sometimes come back to us, they appear to us in dreams and speak to us. I myself well remember how Profuturus, Privātus, and Ser-
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Jul 15, 2022 · St. Augustine (354-430), on the other hand, explained dispassionately why God allowed the Christian empire to succumb to destruction. His famous text, The City of God, prioritized the heavenly city over the temporal one. Essentially, according to Augustine, it mattered not whether Rome fell, because history is filled with passing empires.
