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I had prayed to you for chastity and said give me chastity and continence, but not yet. For I was afraid that you would answer my prayer at once and cure me too soon of the disease of kust, which I wanted satisfied, not…
Our enemies can often correct our faults by their disparagement, just ad the flattery of friends can corrupt us.
But you do not search out our faults ruthlessly, and because of this we hope and believe that one day we shall find a place with you. Yet if any man makes a list of his deserts, what would it be but a list of your gifts?
The man who serves you best is the one who is less intent on hearing from you what he wills to hear from you than on shaping his will according to what he hears from you.
I deserted truth for worldly things and the night closed over me, but even then, even in my darkness, I continued to love you, o Truth. I wandered away, but I remembered you. I heard your voice at my back, calling me to…
For if we play shepherd to the wind, we find pasture for the devils, because by straying from the truth we give them food for laughter and fill their cup of pleasure.
What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called 'liberal arts'in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I could read and underst…
A thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it?
Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.
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I had prayed to you for chastity and said give me chastity and continence, but not yet. For I was afraid that you would answer my prayer at once and cure me too soon of the disease of kust, which I wanted satisfied, not…
Our enemies can often correct our faults by their disparagement, just ad the flattery of friends can corrupt us.
But you do not search out our faults ruthlessly, and because of this we hope and believe that one day we shall find a place with you. Yet if any man makes a list of his deserts, what would it be but a list of your gifts?
The man who serves you best is the one who is less intent on hearing from you what he wills to hear from you than on shaping his will according to what he hears from you.
I deserted truth for worldly things and the night closed over me, but even then, even in my darkness, I continued to love you, o Truth. I wandered away, but I remembered you. I heard your voice at my back, calling me to…
For if we play shepherd to the wind, we find pasture for the devils, because by straying from the truth we give them food for laughter and fill their cup of pleasure.
What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called 'liberal arts'in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I could read and underst…
A thing is good and pleasant only because it is connected to Him. Use it apart from its Source, and it will come to taste bitter. Since the good thing is His, how can it remain worth loving if you forsake Him to get it?
Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.