He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about.
Augustine of Hippo
..a man is not in any difficulty in making a reply according to his faith.. To those who try to defame our Holy Scripture... When they produce from any of their books a theory contrary to Scripture.. Either we shall have some ability to demonstrate that it is absolutely false, or at least we ourselves will hold it so without any shadow of a doubt... Let us choose [the doctrine] which appears as certainly the meaning intended by the author... For it is one thing to fail to recognize the primary meaning of the writer, and another to depart from the norms of religious belief.
evolution
How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
future past eternity present
It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
grace
humility
What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God.
spiritual-wisdom humility
Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
inspirational-life
There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!
wonders nature self humans
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
pride martyrdom
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
religious
Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
self-improvement habit will
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
sin
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
sin confession
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
spiritual
The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.
travel
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.
angel
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