by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
By reason of its weight, the body strives to its own place. Yet a weight strives not so much to sink to the very lowest depths, but rather to its proper place. Fire tends upward; a stone downward. Oil poured out beneath water is raised up above water. Water poured on...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
And man, who is part of your creation, wishes to praise you, man who bears about within himself his mortality, who bears within himself testimony to his sin and testimony that you resist the proud. Confessiones I, 1,1
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The human soul, after all, can participate in truth, but Truth itself is God, unchanging above the soul. So then, turn away if you will from this Truth and turn to yourself, and exult in your own seemingly free movements rather than in being directed and enlightened...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Although man is a great nature, it could be spoiled because it is not the greatest. De Trinitate XIV, 4,6
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
All around, the beauty of the work shines forth, and this speaks well of its Architect. Admire the handiwork; love its Artist.Enarrationes in psalmos 145,5
