by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Although surely an animal of the earth, man was made whole by God with the gift of free will and worthy of heaven if he lives united to his Creator and, also, deserving of unhappiness if he abandons his Creator. He must follow what is proper to such a nature.De...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
It is one thing not to know oneself and another not to think about oneself; but such is the power of love that those things about which one has thought for a long time and which remain fixed in one as if glued to one by anxiety such are borne within the self somehow...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Consider just how a person loves; you can think of love as the hand of the soul. If by holding on to one thing , it can’t take hold of another. Whoever loves the world cannot love God; his hands are occupied. God says to him, take what I give you”, but,...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Good habits are not formed without sound loves.Sermo 311, 11.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Love of the world changes the soul; love of the Creator of the world purifies the soul. Sermo 142, 3.
