by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
I ask everyone if they relish truth more than error and, without second thoughts, everyone responds that truth is more to be desired. They respond with the same certainty as they would say that they want to be happy because the happy life is the enjoyment of...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
He made man to his image and likeness in the mind: therein is the image of God. Hence, the mind cannot be understood even by itself, where there shines the image of God. De symb. ad cat. 1, 2.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
God made you, oh man, to his image. Would he give you eyes to see the sun which he made and not give you eyes to see him who made you, having made you to his image? He gave you one and the other: he gave you both. Sermo 88, 6.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
This is prescribed by the order of nature: it is thus that God has created man. […] He did not intend that His rational creature, who was made in His image, should have dominion over anything but the irrational creation,—not man over man, but man over the...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
God spirit, and his image, which is the human spirit, are immortal. Sermo 375B, 4.
