With the help of the few paltry coins he had collected by begging this man was enjoying the temporal happiness for which I strove by so bitter, devious and roundabout a contrivance.
As if Christian faith were merely a matter of intellect and did not have to stir the whole man. I am intent upon this one purpose, not distracted by other aims, and with this goal in view I press on, eager for the prize, God's heavenly summons. That is true love and respect. “I look forward, not to what lies ahead of me in this life and will surely pass away, but to my eternal goal. And here I was already thirty, and still mucking about in the same mire in a state of indecision, avid to enjoy present fugitive delights which were dispersing my concentration, while I was saying: ‘Tomorrow I shall find it…'” (104)“…The wisdom which governs the world down to the leaves that tremble on the trees.” (117)“When I first came to know you, you raised me up to make me see that what I saw is Being, and that I who saw am not yet Being. “I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.” Yet the depth is amazing, my God, the depth is amazing.” (254)Love. Yet they put themselves at a distance from you and exalt themselves against you.” (32)“No one who considers his frailty would dare to attribute to his own strength his chastity and innocence, so that he has less cause to love you… he should not mock the healing of a sick man by the Physician, whose help has kept him from falling sick…” (33)“The liberty I loved was merely that of a runaway.” (38)“Without you, what am I to myself but a guide to my own self-destruction?” (52)“I sighed and you heard me. If I tried to avert my gaze from myself, his story continued relentlessly, and you once again placed me in front of myself; you thrust me before my own eyes so that I should discover my iniquity and hate it. In Book I, Augustine … Is it because they are ahead of us that we are ashamed to follow?” (146)“The soul is torn apart in a painful condition, as long as it prefers the eternal because of its truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.” (150)“How I cried out to you in those Psalms, and how they kindled my love for you! You took me up from behind my own back where I had placed myself because I did not wish to observe myself, and you set me before my face so that I should see how vile I was, how twisted and filthy, covered in sores and ulcers. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. Glad you liked them. Say to my soul,
“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. '” (123-124)“But while he was speaking, Lord, you turned my attention back to myself.
The surface meaning lies open before us and charms beginners.
One thing I’ve always hated about the turn Facebook took a few years ago is the marginalization of the quotes section in your profile. There is no true friendship unless You weld it between souls that cling together by the charity poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Spirit.” (Confessions) “The friendship which draws human beings together in a tender bond is sweet to us because out of many minds it forges a unity.” (Confessions) It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” “For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since