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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

- #AugustineofHippo
December 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Today in #history: Augustine of Hippo is born. (354 CE) #OnThisDay #AugustineOfHippo
image from Black Coffee Calvinist with quote from Augustin of Hippo
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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« Vision Of Saint Augustine » by Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski

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#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #FeliksMichałWygrzywalski #StAugustine #AugustineOfHippo #visions
January 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

- #AugustineofHippo
September 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

- #AugustineofHippo
December 27, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Our whole business in this life is to restore to health
the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.‬

‪- #AugustineofHippo‬
May 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

- #AugustineofHippo, 'Confessions'
September 30, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

- #AugustineofHippo
June 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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« Saint Augustine » by Philippe de Champaigne

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#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #PhilippeDeChampaigne #StAugustine #AugustineOfHippo
Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse
« Saint Augustine » by Philippe de Champaigne
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January 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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DYK medieval men inherited #AugustineOfHippo & #JohnCassian’s distrust of their bodies & believed their bodies were uncontrollable & sinful? The urge for #SoloSex, #WetDreams, & spontaneous proved their bodies were out of control. Blog9 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
August 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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The soul has a private door into divine nature at the point where for her things all come to naught.

- #AugustineofHippo
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

- #AugustineofHippo
April 5, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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There is one within me who is more myself than myself.

- #AugustineofHippo
March 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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DKY 4thC #AugustineOfHippo taught #SexPlay & coitus, even for making a baby, was always a sin? It stained offspring w/#OriginalSin. The Catholic church still holds this early medieval #DangerousChurchDoctrine. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Blog8 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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The fate reserved for the followers of paganism in the City of #Dieu , v. 1480.
Macon, Mediaatheque and Municipal Archives, ms 1, f. 260.
#pagan #gods #demons #devils
#DeCivitateDei #medieval #medievalart
#enfer #AugustineofHippo #StAugustine #art #history #historyofart
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

- #AugustineofHippo
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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✝️ Paulus Orosius (usually given as Orosius, 5th century) was a Christian theologian and historian who was also a friend and protege of Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430).

📝 Article by Joshua J. Mark. 

#Orosius #Christianity #Religion #Theology #AugustineOfHippo #History #Paganism
June 20, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

- #AugustineofHippo
July 26, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

- #AugustineofHippo
May 4, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us in nature.

- #AugustineofHippo
February 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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DYK early church fathers, like #AugustineOfHippo, repudiated Rome's diverse sexuality & insisted all non-procreative sex, from #AnalSex to #zoophilia, was sinful? For them, #EmperorConstantine made all sex outside of coitus in marriage a crime.
May 23, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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He is truly happy who has all that he wishes to have, and wishes to have nothing that he ought not to wish.

- #AugustineofHippo
July 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Evils abound in the world so that the world will fail to seduce us into loving it.

- #AugustineofHippo
November 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times.

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May 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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What does it avail me that this birth is always happening, if it does not happen in me? That it should happen in me is what matters.

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December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM