#augustine of hippo

[hayleylovesjessica]

Tumblrinas like to talk about what's canon and what's not, but what about the actual literary canon? Which of the following works of Western literature have you read?

[reformedfaith]

If physical objects give you pleasure, praise God for them and return love to their Maker lest, in the things that please you, you displease him… For all that comes from him is unjustly loved if he has been abandoned.

Augustine of Hippo

[ohholydyke]

When Saint Augustine said “evil and sin doesn’t exist, it’s just an absence of good” and when Saint Julian of Norwich said “sin doesn’t exist, everything is love and charity, we just struggle to perceive and embody that love and thus suffer pain and despair” and when Jesus Christ said to be perfect as god is perfect means to love everyone and when Saint Hildegard said all are sick and feeble and rotting and inherently worthy of love and care and do you see the connections love is everything love is all there is, sin is what happens when we suffer because we do not love and do not allow ourselves to be loved and it’s fixed by restoration of the sinner to the love which never leaves them it just lingers there until they are ready to accept it. The great commandment is love. We are loved and we ought to love. Care community charity affection support interdependence THESE are holy and these are what constitute everything and our oneness in god who is love. The attributes of God aren’t separate. God’s justice is love, his holiness is love, his righteousness is love, his power is love, his knowledge is love. He loved us so much he became us so that we could become one with him in a way creation never could otherwise. That’s why sin entered the world. That’s why the cross happened. So that creator and creation could become one in love through the remedying unification of the passion, like when you have to cut a section out of a tree and cut a branch in order to graft it on so that they become one and begin producing fruit.

The body of Christ is like Van Aken’s tree, which grows forty different types of fruit after a process of careful grafting, tending and growth. Look at it—it’s beautiful. That is our relationship to God through Christ.

[beguines]

Donald Revell, from "Alphabet City: An Autobiography", Drought-Adapted Vine

[koredzas]

Sandro Botticelli - Saint Augustine. 1480

[classic-art-favourites]

The Devil Shows Saint Augustine the Book of Vices by Michael Pacher, 1480.

[lionofchaeronea]

For there is still in human beings a measure of light: let them walk, let them walk, lest the darkness seize them. adhuc enim modicum lumen est in hominibus; ambulent, ambulent, ne tenebrae conprehendant. --Augustine of Hippo, Confessions X.xxiii.33

[emberfrostlovesloki]

Spencer + Poetry

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Criminal Minds Characters + Virtues - Spencer and Chastity

"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to make sure they do not stay as they are" (Augustine of Hippo)

I know chastity isn't a word we throw around a lot these days, and even if Spencer is living up to his love life (which I think he is), there are still qualities to this virtue that Spencer portrays. He shows great care and restraint for those around him. He does his best, and when he's given hard situations, like diluted, he tries to work through it without the help of anyone around him. I think he waits to get into relationships, he waits for clues to come together so he can see the bigger picture. I think Spencer embodies chasteness more than anyone on the team. (but come on CM, give him a nice girlfriend/boyfriend please!)

Other Virtue Mood Boards: Aaron + Poetry, Rossi + Poetry, Emily + Poetry, Derek + Poetry, JJ + Poetry

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[spacieacademic]

When Lord Byron said though pleasure stirs the maddening soul, the heart – the heart – is lonely still and when Oscar Wilde said desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both and when St. Augustine said in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things

[soulmaking]

Angie Estes, from "True Confessions"

[x-heesy]

Doubt is the origin of wisdoom.

-𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙷𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚘

Gimme a Second by Saliva Grey

[reformedfaith]

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Augustine of Hippo

[beatrack92]

Saint Augustine writing "The City of God" in the early 5th century

[beguines]

[beyond-crusading]

Instead of saying "I'm sorry", try saying conputrui coram oculis tuis, placens mihi et placere cupiens oculis hominum, meaning "I became corrupted in front of your eyes, because it pleased me and because I desired to be pleasant in the eyes of men". It won't help with the guilt but it will make you look cooler.

[classic-art-favourites]

Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne, 1645-1650.