Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness is an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant...to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misfortune.
Augustine of HippoWhat grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
Augustine of HippoThe bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven, as though to remind him to keep his thoughts on things above.
Augustine of Hippo...The Devil would not have begun by an open and obvious sin to tempt man into doing something which God had forbidden, had not man already begun to seek satisfaction in himself and, consequently, to take pleasure in the words: 'You shall be as Gods.' The promise of these words, however, would much more truly have come to pass if, by obedience, Adam and Eve had kept close to the ultimate and true Source of their being and had not, by pride imagined that they were themselves the source of their being. For, created gods are gods not in virtue of their own being but by a participation in the being of the true God. For, whoever seeks to be more than he is becomes less, and while he aspires to be self-sufficing he retires from Him who is truly sufficient for him.
Augustine of HippoWhat is pride but an appetite for inordinate exaltation? Now, exaltation is inordinate when the soul cuts itself off from the very Source to which it should keep close and somehow makes itself and becomes an end to itself.
Augustine of HippoFor a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin...
Augustine of HippoSalvator ambulado. (It is solved by walking.)
Augustine of HippoWhat great good, then, we are to expect and hope from participating in his divinity, when even his distress calms us and his weakness strengthens us.
Augustine of HippoSprawiedliwości i niewinności pragnę, pięknych i jasnych dla oczu czystych, ich pragnę, które im bardziej sycą, tym bardziej się ich pożąda. W nich jest spokój pewny, w nich jest życie, którego nic nie zakłóci.
Augustine of Hippo« first previous
Page 31 of 31.
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.