Friday, January 16, 2009

grace with Saint Augustine

my favorite passage from this week:

Do Not Be Ungrateful for Grace
We were all perfectly capable of wounding ourselves, but which of us is capable of curing what we've done. It's the same with misdeeds; any of you can wound yourselves, can't you, whenever you like? But you can't cure yourself whenever you like. So have a God-fearing mind; be faithfully a Christian; do not be ungrateful for grace. Acknowledge the Doctor; the sick never cure themselves. Sermon 160,7

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