Tag: Augustine
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God is in Control
“Christians cannot promise that life on earth will get better as time goes on; we have no assurance that it will. It is perfectly possible that our civilization will decline as ancient Rome did, and that our descendants will live through another dark age. The sinful passions of fallen man have not been defeated, and…
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Share the Truth or Lose It
And therefore, Lord, your judgments are terrible, because your truth is not my property nor the property of this man or that man; it belongs to all of us whom you publicly call into communion with it, warning us in most terrible terms that we must not hold it as private to ourselves lest we…
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The Character of the Two Cities
In the last chapter of Book XIV of his City of God Augustine describes the difference in character between the earthly city and the Heavenly City:
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Tell me, I ask …
Tell me, I ask of you, where will we get by all these labors of ours? What are we seeking for? To what purpose do we serve in office? What higher ambition can we have at court than to become friends of the emperor? In such a position what is there that is not fragile…
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Human Honor
When all the boasting is over, what is any man but just another man? And, even though a crooked world came to admit that men should be honored only according to merit, even human honor would be of no great value. It is smoke that weighs nothing. — Augustine, City of God
PHILIPPINE THEO LAW GEE 