- Quarrel with your own heart!
Prefer even vicious people to be cured rather than condemned …. If you want to quarrel with your enemy, quarrel first with your own heart. Quarrel, I tell you. Quarrel …
- Imitate the Lowly God
Why art thou proud, O man? God for thee became low. Thou wouldst perhaps be ashamed to imitate a lowly man; then at least imitate the lowly God.
- Put your Sins Before You
But the rewards of the Lord cannot be before your eyes unless your sins are before your eyes.
Let not delight in past sin be before your eyes, but let the condemnation of …
- Above All, Humility
Not that there are no other precepts to give but if humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are meaningless.
- Singing
Singing belongs to one who loves.
- Augustine on Giants
Even in our own time men have been born whose bodies far exceed the normal stature of men today.
- Love Builds Up
Never stop reflecting on that maxim of the apostle, ‘Knowledge puffs up, love builds up.’
- God's Bidding
God bids us to do what we cannot, that we may know what we ought to seek from Him.