“And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-called liberal arts, I, the vile slave of vile affections, read by myself, and understood? And I delighted in them, but knew not whence came all, that therein was true or certain. For I had my back to the light, and my face to the things enlightened; whence my face, with which I discerned the things enlightened, itself was not enlightened.”
― The Confessions of St. Augustine
― The Confessions of St. Augustine
“Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.”
― Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
― Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
“The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.”
― The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
― The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
“If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on the pleasures but toward their Maker.3 Otherwise, the things that please you will cause you to displease. Love those souls that please you, but love them in God.”
― The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version
― The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version
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