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1 Int | Augustine’s thought and life. And, still today, in the
2 Int | conception of the Christian life. He did not invent the doctrines
3 Int | contemplation of the end of life suffices unless it discovers
4 Int | consistency in his entire life’s work. He was never interested
5 Int | worldly ways to the monastic life.~He makes it plain that
6 Int, 1 | the manner and mode of the life everlasting. From this he
7 Int, 1 | the heart of the Christian life. This, then, is the “handbook”
8 Int, 1 | enterprise to which his whole life was devoted: the search
9 1 | pilgrimage of grace which his life has been - and to praise
10 1, IV | thereby. Yet, O my God, my life, my holy Joy, what is this
11 1, VI | But thou, O Lord, whose life is forever and in whom nothing
12 1, VI | yet an earlier age of my life that had already passed
13 1, VI | preceded that period of life? Was I, indeed, anywhere,
14 1, VI | womenfolk. Now, clearly, I had life and being; and, as my infancy
15 1, VI | source from which being and life could flow into us, save
16 1, VI | thou with whom being and life are one, since thou thyself
17 1, VI | supreme being and supreme life both together. For thou
18 1, VII | nourishment to sustain his life? Yet we look leniently on
19 1, VII | my God, thou who gavest life to the infant, and a body
20 1, VII | dwell on this part of my life of which, O Lord, I have
21 1, VIII | stormy fellowship of human life, depending all the while
22 1, XI | boy I had heard of eternal life promised to us through the
23 1, XIII | the sin and vanity of this life? For I was “but flesh, a
24 1, XIII | dying to thee, O God, my life, in the midst of these things.~
25 1, XIII | greatest inconvenience in our life, if it were forgotten: reading
26 1, XVII | it now to me, O my true Life, my God, that my declaiming
27 2, III | confessing heart and a faithful life? ~Who did not extol and
28 2, V | deviate from thy law. The life which we live here has its
29 2, VI | memory senses, and the animal life of man; nor yet the kind
30 2, VI | teeming with spawning life, replacing in birth that
31 2, VI | rottenness! O monstrousness of life and abyss of death! Could
32 2, X | thee is perfect rest, and life unchanging. He who enters
33 3, II | corruption. Such was my life! But was it life, O my God?~
34 3, II | was my life! But was it life, O my God?~
35 3, IV | that unstable period of my life, I studied the books of
36 3, VI | even the soul, which is the life of bodies; and, clearly,
37 3, VI | bodies; and, clearly, the life of the body is better than
38 3, VI | itself. But thou art the life of souls, life of lives,
39 3, VI | thou art the life of souls, life of lives, having life in
40 3, VI | souls, life of lives, having life in thyself, and never changing,
41 3, VI | thyself, and never changing, O Life of my soul.67~11. Where,
42 3, VIII | forsaken, O Fountain of Life, who art the one and true
43 4, I | all, vain! In my public life I was striving after the
44 4, I | intemperate desires. In my private life I was seeking to be purged
45 4, II | not to be used against the life of the innocent, but sometimes
46 4, II | but sometimes to save the life of a guilty man. And thou,
47 4, III | was replete with vivacity, life, and earnestness. He recognized
48 4, IV | take that man out of this life when he had scarcely completed
49 4, IV | all the sweetness of my life thus far. ~8. Who can show
50 4, V | plucked from the bitterness of life, from groans, tears, sighs,
51 4, V | hope of his coming back to life, nor in all my tears did
52 4, VI | wretched, and yet that wretched life I still held dearer than
53 4, VI | bodies. Consequently, my life was now a horror to me because
54 4, IX | because of the loss of the life of the dying.~Blessed is
55 4, XII | You seek for a blessed life in the land of death. It
56 4, XII | how can there be a blessed life where life itself is not?”~
57 4, XII | be a blessed life where life itself is not?”~19. But
58 4, XII | is not?”~19. But our very Life came down to earth and bore
59 4, XII | very abundance of his own life. And, thundering, he called
60 4, XII | by words, deeds, death, life, descent, ascension - crying
61 4, XII | of heart? Even now after Life itself has come down to
62 4, XV | substance of irrational life and some kind of entity
63 4, XV | only a substance but real life as well, and yet I believed
64 4, XV | false opinions contaminate life if the rational soul itself
65 5, IX | appeared to me unreal. And the life of my soul was as false,
66 6 | confused quest for the happy life. Augustine becomes engaged,
67 6, I | springs up into everlasting life.152 For she loved that man
68 6, II | of her faithful religious life, in which she frequented
69 6, II | conceive that the way of life could be found out.~
70 6, IV | kills, but the spirit gives life,”157 while at the same time
71 6, V | do nothing at all in this life.159 Finally, I was impressed
72 6, X | did, as to what course of life to follow.~17. Nebridius
73 6, X | ardent seeker after the true life and a most acute analyst
74 6, XI | for the guidance of his life? No, let us search the more
75 6, XI | the search for truth. This life is unhappy, death uncertain.
76 6, XI | great things for us if the life of the soul perished with
77 6, XI | after God and the blessed life?~“But wait a moment. This
78 6, XI | But wait a moment. This life also is pleasant, and it
79 6, XI | of wisdom with a marriage life.”~20. While I talked about
80 6, XI | postponed from day to day the life in thee, but I could not
81 6, XI | was enamored of a happy life, but I still feared to seek
82 6, XII | possibly live a celibate life. And when I urged in my
83 6, XII | could be without which my life, which he thought was so
84 6, XII | happy, seemed to me to be no life at all, but a punishment.
85 6, XII | ordering of a good married life and the bringing up of children
86 6, XIV | turbulent vexations of human life, had often considered and
87 6, XIV | to undertake a peaceful life, away from the turmoil of
88 6, XVI | after death there remains a life for the soul, and places
89 6, I | I thought about thee, O Life of my life, as stretched
90 6, I | about thee, O Life of my life, as stretched out through
91 6, III | certainly as I knew that I had life. When, therefore, I willed
92 6, VI | of all errors except the Life which does not know how
93 6, VII | man’s salvation to that life which is to come after this
94 6, IX | which was made by him is “life, and the life was the light
95 6, IX | by him is “life, and the life was the light of men. And
96 6, XVIII | way, the truth, and the life,”217 and mingling with our
97 7, I | every side. Of thy eternal life I was now certain, although
98 7, I | But as for my temporal life, everything was uncertain,
99 7, I | not be satisfied with the life I was living in the world.
100 7, I | this single reason my whole life was one of inner turbulence
101 7, I | to agree to a married life which bound me hand and
102 7, III | very pleasures of human life - not only those which rush
103 7, VI | in which was written the life of Anthony! One of them
104 7, VI | on embracing just such a life, giving up his worldly employment
105 7, VI | of the travail of the new life he turned his eyes again
106 7, VIII | for health, and dying for life; knowing what evil thing
107 7, XI | to death and to live to life. And the worse way, to which
108 8, II | white, and from death to life, crowded into the bosom
109 8, III | Christian and departed this life as one of the faithful.
110 8, IV | the new resolve of a new life with my trust laid in thee -
111 8, VI | didst quickly remove his life from the earth, and even
112 8, VI | the anxiety about our past life left us.~Nor did I ever
113 8, VIII | that I might be born to life eternal. I will not speak
114 8, VIII | buoyancy of her time of life, which bubbles up with sportiveness
115 8, IX | of the fruits of a holy life, they recognized thee present
116 8, X | which she was to depart this life - a day which thou knewest,
117 8, X | the nature of the eternal life of the saints: which eye
118 8, X | fountain, “the fountain of life” which is with thee,295
119 8, X | with the sweetness of that life to come, not worthy of comparison,
120 8, X | the food of truth, where life is that Wisdom by whom all
121 8, X | these inward joys that his life might be eternally like
122 8, X | pleasure in anything in this life. Now that my hopes in this
123 8, X | to tarry a little in this life, and that was that I might
124 8, XI | about her contempt of this life and the blessing of death.
125 8, XI | fifty-sixth year of her life and the thirty-third of
126 8, XII | the witness of her good life, her “faith unfeigned,”304
127 8, XII | soul was stricken; and that life was torn apart, as it were,
128 8, XII | thy handmaid: her devout life toward thee, her holy tenderness
129 8, XIII | by her faith and by her life, yet I would not dare say
130 8, XIII | would be doom even for the life of a praiseworthy man if
131 8, XIII | now, O my Praise and my Life, O God of my heart, forgetting
132 8, XIII | didst bring me into this life, in a manner I know not.
133 8, XIII | parents in this transitory life, and remember my brothers
134 9, I | the other things of this life, they deserve our lamentations
135 9, VI | of your body, giving it life, whereas no body furnishes
136 9, VI | whereas no body furnishes life to a body. But your God
137 9, VI | body. But your God is the life of your life.~
138 9, VI | God is the life of your life.~
139 9, VII | structure of it is filled with life. Yet it is not by that vital
140 9, XVII | Of what nature am I? A life various, and manifold, and
141 9, XVII | memory, so great the power of life in man whose life is mortal!
142 9, XVII | power of life in man whose life is mortal! What, then, shall
143 9, XVII | shall I do, O thou my true life, my God? I will pass even
144 9, XX | my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek thee that my
145 9, XX | then, do I seek a happy life, since happiness is not
146 9, XX | forgotten it? Is not the happy life the thing that all desire,
147 9, XX | do ask whether the happy life is in the memory. For if
148 9, XX(341) | early dialogue "On the Happy Life" in Vol. I of The Fathers
149 9, XXI | remembers it? No, for the happy life is not visible to the eye,
150 9, XXI | something about the happy life and therefore we love it,
151 9, XXI | delighted. But as for a happy life, there is no physical perception
152 9, XXI | just as I remember a happy life when I am miserable. And
153 9, XXI | ever experience my happy life that I can call it to mind
154 9, XXI | joy what they call a happy life? Although one could choose
155 9, XXI | whenever the phrase “a happy life” is heard.~
156 9, XXII | thou thyself art. The happy life is this - to rejoice to
157 9, XXIII | which is alone the happy life - do not actually desire
158 9, XXIII | actually desire the happy life? Or, is it rather that all
159 9, XXIII | to be happy. For a happy life is joy in the truth. Yet
160 9, XXIII | All wish for this happy life; all wish for this life
161 9, XXIII | life; all wish for this life which is the only happy
162 9, XXIII | ever know about this happy life, except where they knew
163 9, XXIII | when they love the happy life, which is nothing else but
164 9, XXIII | who also love the happy life, which is nothing else than
165 9, XXVIII | and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being
166 9, XXVIII | my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by
167 9, XXVIII | I need mercy. Is not the life of man on earth an ordeal?
168 9, XXVIII | between these two, where human life is not an ordeal? There
169 9, XXVIII | of endurance. Is not the life of man upon the earth an
170 9, XXX | the eyes, and the pride of life.”348 Thou commandest me
171 9, XXX | to pass not only in this life but even at my present age.
172 9, XXXII | ought to feel secure in this life, the whole of which is called
173 9, XXXIII | the words which are their life that they gain entry into
174 9, XXXIV | taught his son the way of life - and went before him himself
175 9, XXXIV | was speaking, seasons the life of the world for her blind
176 9, XXXIV | their significance for the life of piety - which men have
177 9, XXXV | and of both such things my life is full and my only hope
178 9, XXXVI | diseases, and “redeem my life from corruption and crown
179 9, XXXVI | it leave me during this life: the desire to be feared
180 9, XXXVI | It is, rather, a wretched life and an unseemly ostentation.
181 9, XXXVII | live wickedly or lead a life so atrocious and abandoned
182 9, XXXVII | the companion of a good life and of good works, we should
183 9, XXXVII | companionship as the good life itself. But unless a thing
184 9, XL | able and have noticed the life which my body derives from
185 9, XL | do not know to what point life might not then arrive. But
186 9, XLIII | reward of righteousness is life and peace, he could, through
187 9, XLIII | had power to lay down his life and power to take it up
188 10 | together his memory of his past life, his present experience,
189 10, II | bodily necessities in this life of our pilgrimage: all of
190 10, IX | thou who “shalt redeem my life from corruption, and crown
191 10, XXVIII | same holds in the whole life of man, of which all the
192 10, XXIX | loving-kindness is better than life itself,”450 observe how
193 10, XXIX | itself,”450 observe how my life is but a stretching out,
194 10, XXIX | gathered up from my old way of life to follow that One and to
195 11, I | Lord, when in this poor life of mine the words of thy
196 11, V | intelligible form, such as life or justice, since it is
197 11, X | will I drink and so have life. Let me not be my own life;
198 11, X | life. Let me not be my own life; for of myself I have lived
199 11, XI | house all the days of its life (and what is its life but
200 11, XI | its life (and what is its life but thee? And what are thy
201 11, XXV | are true - then, O my God, life of the poor, in whose breast
202 12, II | thee, and so relapse into a life like that of the dark abyss.~
203 12, II | we were in that former life of darkness; and we toil
204 12, III | it already had a kind of life which thou couldst illuminate.
205 12, III | thee that it should be a life capable of enlightenment,
206 12, IV | itself - moved over that life which thou hadst made: in
207 12, IV | living happily, since that life still lives even as it flows
208 12, IV | more like “the fountain of life,” and in his light “to see
209 12, V | him from whom it has its life (such as it is) and by his
210 12, V | his Light comes to be a life suffused with beauty. Thus
211 12, VIII | lacking in me before my life can run to thy embrace and
212 12, VIII | not only in my outward life, but also within my inmost
213 12, XI | who can see how integral a life is; for there is one life,
214 12, XI | life is; for there is one life, one mind, one essence.
215 12, XV | to us have departed this life. And thou knowest, O Lord,
216 12, XV | Word pass away from this life into another; but thy Scripture
217 12, XVI | itself. Thus the fountain of life is with thee, and “in thy
218 12, XVII(579)| speaks of the bitterness of life in the civitas terrena;
219 12, XVIII | hold on high the Word of Life. And let us at length appear
220 12, XIX | should do to attain eternal life. Let the good Teacher (whom
221 12, XIX | if he would enter into life, he must keep the commandments:
222 12, XIX | heaven, having the Word of life. Run to and fro everywhere,
223 12, XX | moving creatures that have life.608 For by separating the
224 12, XX | creeping creatures that have life and the fowls that fly over
225 12, XX | their soul has a higher life and unless, after the word
226 12, XXI | flying creature that has life,” but “the living soul”
227 12, XXI | creeping creatures having life and the flying fowl under
228 12, XXI | deserted the fountain of life, and so has been taken up
229 12, XXI | O God, is a fountain of life eternal, and it does not
230 12, XXI | soul” in the fountain of life - a soul disciplined by
231 12, XXIV | shall I say, O Truth, O my Life: that it was idly and vainly
232 12, XXIV | the offspring of marine life and man - then we discover
233 12, XXIV | mercy done in this present life (signified by “the seed-bearing
234 12, XXV | provided for the necessities of life. Such an “earth” was the
235 12, XXVI | given by one who bestows life’s necessities on another -
236 12, XXVII | otherwise aided in this present life. For they do not really
237 12, XXXIV | ones, who have the Word of Life and who shine with an exalted
238 12, XXXIV | perfect the faithful in this life, thou didst will that these
239 12, XXXIV | use and fruitful for the life to come. We see all these
240 12, XXXV | in thee in the Sabbath of life eternal.653~
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