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Sydney • 1 card
For you have so made us that we long for you, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), the priest and humanist scholar who, as early as 1516, began preaching against clerical abuses, and whose sermons ‘from true, divine scripture’, starting in 1520, inaugurated a popular movement in Switzerland against such practices as priestly celibacy and the keeping of fasts.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
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Mary Martin • 2 cards
A person learns to live the Beatitudes by practicing, with the aid of God’s grace, the theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity; see 1 Cor 13:13) and the moral virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance; see Wis 8:7), and by being empowered by the Holy Spirit’s gifts (see Isa 11:1–2), so that the fruits of the Spirit, such as love,
... See morePablo T. Gadenz • The Gospel of Luke (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture): (A Catholic Bible Commentary on the New Testament by Trusted Catholic Biblical Scholars - CCSS)
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You"
St. Augustine
As he points out in one of his early dialogues, “Just as the soul is the whole life of the body, God is the happy life of the soul. While we are doing this, until we have done it completely, we are on the road.”