A lecture on st. Augustine of Africa. [repr. from the Christian observer, with notes.].1860 |
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A Lecture on St. Augustine of Africa. [Repr. from the Christian Observer ... William Kay Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 35 - Christ constraineth us : because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they who live, should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them and rose again.
Página 31 - The very toys of toys, and vanities of vanities, my ancient mistresses, still held me; they plucked my fleshly garment, and whispered softly, "Dost thou cast us off? and from that moment shall we no more be with thee for ever ? and from that moment shall not this or that be lawful for thee for ever?
Página 28 - It, because I was made by It. He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows eternity.
Página 34 - Not with uncertain, but with assured consciousness do I love Thee, O Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. And also the heaven, and earth, and all that is therein, behold, on every side they say that I should love Thee; nor do they cease to speak unto all, "so that they are without excuse.
Página 28 - I could not find it until I embraced the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who is over all things, God blessed forever, who was calling unto me and saying: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life...
Página 34 - ... a way of escape, that we may be able to bear it...
Página 35 - ... of joy! Woe to the adversities of the world, once and again, and the third time, from the longing for prosperity, and because adversity itself is a hard thing, and lest it shatter endurance. Is not the life of man upon earth all trial: without any interval?
Página 13 - For I feared lest Thou shouldest hear me soon, and soon cure me of the disease of concupiscence, which I wished to have satisfied, rather than extinguished. And I...
Página 34 - I asked the earth, and it said : ' I am not He ;' and all that is upon it made the same confession.
Página 12 - I lay in my boyhood; this the stage where I had feared more to commit a barbarism, than having committed one, to envy those who had not. These things I speak and confess to Thee, my God; for which I had praise from them, whom I then thought it all virtue to please. For I saw not the abyss of vileness, wherein I was cast away from Thine eyes.