by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
This is the difference between those true straws and these carnal people: that those straws do not have free will, but men have a God-given free will. And if man wills it, yesterday he was straw, today he is wheat: if he turns away from the word of God, today he...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The man whose soul is governed by the spirit and whose soul governs his body, which cannot be done with God’s grace, is called spiritual.De diversis quaestionibus LXXXIII q.67, 5.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
It is reasonable that the lesser submit to the greater, that is, if one expects that which is inferior to himself to submit, he himself should obey that which is above him. Therefore, acknowledge the order of things and seek peace. Submit yourself to God and, in turn,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. De Civitate Dei XIV, 11,1
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
[The soul] cannot well rule its inferior, unless its superior it have not disdained to serve.Enarrationes in psalmos 46,10.
