O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Tag: Saint Augustine
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…Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.