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Augustine developed the doctrine of original sin and with it cast humanity as forever alienated from the Divine. Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden for disobeying God, and every person in every generation has paid for their transgression since, throughout the history of humanity, by being born inherently bad. Our inability to heal t

Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

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Richard Rohr • Falling Upward

For all of the political and philosophical wisdom she draws from it, Augustine’s Confessions is animated by his experience of personal love — that eternal force that governs the Sun and the Moon and the stars of our interior lives, reflected and codified in our cultural and social structures.

Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss

the buffered self seems predisposed to lock divine action out of its inner world, radically reversing Augustine’s vision and making things very difficult for the pastor. If God is to enter this space that Augustine helped make, then God must be stripped of otherness and made into a therapeutic crutch that the brave can outgrow.

Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God

Patrística - O livre-arbítrio - Vol. 8 (Portuguese Edition)

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Cover of Patrística - O livre-arbítrio - Vol. 8 (Portuguese Edition)

Late have I loved You,

O Beauty ever ancient, ever new,

late have I loved You!

You were within me, but I was outside,

and it was there that I searched for You.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which You created.

You were with me, but I was not with You. Created things kept me from You;

yet if they had not been in You, they would ... See more

Starting Habits for Intellectual Study as a Mom | Mother Academia | Classical Charlotte Mason

The city of God as tent city, as refugee camp, speaks to the vulnerability and risk of the life of faith, bringing out an essential aspect of Augustine’s understanding of our journey.

James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

“We are not referring to some dark corner, but to a vast inner space.”6 According to St. Augustine, this vast inner space of the soul, an “abyss” as he terms it, is completely open and porous to God: “Indeed, Lord, to your eyes, the abyss of human consciousness is naked.”

Martin Laird • A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation

“A saint is one until he or she knows it.”