Augustine 400 AD “Let them, therefore, turn back and seek thee, because even if they have abandoned thee, their Creator, thou hast not abandoned thy creatures. Let them turn back and seek thee–and lo, thou art there in their hearts, … Continue reading Thou art near even…
Augustine 400 AD “Let us now,O Lord, return that we be not overturned, because with thee our good lives withoutblemish–for our good is thee thyself. And we need not fear that we shall find noplace to return to because we … Continue reading When we turn…
Augustine 400 AD. “Nor, again, is it necessarily true because rudely uttered, nor untrue because the language is brilliant.” “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” – John 14:6 Continue reading I am the way…
Augustine from Augustine: Confessions “But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in … Continue reading Other men’s judgment
Augustine in 400 AD “But our very Life came down to earth and bore our death, and slew it with the very abundance of his own life. And, thundering, he called us to return to himinto that secret place from which he came forth to us–coming first into the virginalwomb, where the human creature, our mortal flesh, was joined to him that it mightnot be forever mortal–and came “as a bridegroom coming out his chamber, rejoicingas a strong man to run a race.”For he did not delay, but ran through the world,crying out by words, deeds, death, life, descent, ascension–crying … Continue reading In the land of death
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Augustine 400 AD “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” – Isaiah 53:6 “THUS SAITH THE LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD….The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” – Jeremiah 17:5,9 “Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered and said, Every … Continue reading What am I….
But here in lay my sin, that it was not in him, but in his creatures–myself and the rest–that I sought for pleasures, honors, and truths. And I fell thereby into sorrows, troubles,and errors. Thanks be to thee, my joy, my pride, my confidence, my God–thanks be to thee for thy gifts; but do thou preserve them in me. For thus wilt thou preserve me; and those things which thou hast given me shall be developed and perfected,and I myself shall be with thee, for from thee is my being. – Augustine 400 ADish from “The Confessions of Saint Augustine” Continue reading Here in lay my sin
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