by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Then from the moment when that nature so marvellous and so great began to be, whether this image be so worn out as to be almost none at all, or whether it be obscure and defaced, or bright and beautiful, certainly it always is. De Trinitate, XIV, 4, 6.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
For it is His image in this very point, that it is capable of Him, and can be partaker of Him; which so great good is only made possible by its being His image. < De Trinitate XIV, 8, 11.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
He made also man after His own image, in order that, as He Himself, in virtue of His omnipotence, presides over universal creation, so man, in virtue of that intelligence of his by which he comes to know even his Creator and worships Him, might preside over all the...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Let us attend as much as we can, and let us invoke the everlasting light, that He may illuminate our darkness, and that we may see in ourselves, as much as we are permitted, the image of God. De Trinitate IX, 2, 2.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
God wished to sow in every soul the seeds of intelligence and wisdom.Sermo 117,11.