by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The mortality, the corruptibility of the flesh are bars that imprison us. Enarrationes in psalmos 37,4
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
One is not distant from God by space but by affection. Do you love God? He is near you. Do you abhor him? He is far away. Enarrationes in psalmos 84,11
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Is it not something to reflect where we were lying and where we had been picked up? Is it not something to think about that the impious do not seek God, though He sought them when they were abandoned, and finding them he awakened them, and waking them he called them,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Vice always goes against nature. Epistula 150,25
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Similarly, Adam descended and fell into the hands of thieves, because we all are Adam. The Priest passed by and paid no attention; the Levite passed by and paid no attention because the Law could not heal. The Samaritan, passing by, did not despise us; he cured us, he...