The Many Faces of Saint Augustine

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"You say, the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So, change human beings and the times will be changed." (Sermon 311, 8) "The main purpose for your having come together is to live harmoniously in your house, intent upon God with one heart and one soul. Therefore call nothing your own, but let everything be yours in common." (Rule I, 3-4) "If you get lost through loving yourself, you get found in denying yourself." (Sermon 96, 1) "Our heart is restness until it rests in you." (Confessions I, 1, 1) "For love, as it is written, is not self-seeking, meaning that it places the common good before its own, not its own before the common good. Know, then, that the more you devote yourselves to the community rather than to your private interests, the more you have advanced." (Rule V, 31) "People set out to wonder at the heights of the mountains, at the mighty waves of the sea, at the broad waterfalls of the rivers, at the vast extent of the ocean, at the movements of the stars. But themselves they pass by." (Confessions X, 8, 15) "Forgive; give." (Sermon 64, 5) "Now this is the law of Christ, that we carry one another’s burdens mutually." (Eighty-three Diverse Questions 71, 7) "Let all of you then live together in oneness of mind and heart, mutually honoring in yourselves God whose temples you have become." (Rule I, 9) "Yours is the day, yours the night, a sign from you sends minutes speeding by; spare in their fleeting course a space for us to ponder the hidden wonders of your law: shut it not against us as we knock." (Confessions XI, 2, 3) "Moreover, this is the rule of love: the good that we desire for ourselves we desire for our neighbor also; and the evil that we are unwilling to undergo we wish to prevent from happening to our neighbor. All who love God will have such a desire toward everybody." (True Religion 87) "Let us work hard every day at making progress toward God." (Sermon 16A, 13) "For when we are harassed by poverty, saddened by bereavement, ill, or in pain, let good friends visit us. Let them be persons who not only can rejoice with those who rejoice but can weep with those who weep." (Letter 130, 2) "Let us approach the words of your book together, and there seek your will as expressed through the will of your servant, by whose pen you have dispensed your words to us." (Confessions, XII, 23, 32) "Let us leave a little room for reflection, room too for silence." (Sermon 52, 22) “Note the Psalmist’s words: “I sought the Lord, and He answered me.” Where did the Lord hear? Within. Where does He reply? Within. There you pray, there you are heard, and there you are made happy. Therefore, enter your heart.” (Commentary on Psalm 33 (2), 8)