Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered from thoughts, when they do not have before their eyes those things which produce passion. But the passions for them remain hidden in the soul, and when the things appear again the passions are revealed. Therefore it is necessary to guard the mind when these things appear, and to know toward which things you have a passion.
— Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
Gregory the Great (c. 540-604), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
It is in vain that we cut off the branches of evil, if we leave intact the root, which continually produces new ones.
— Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
Augustine (354-430), Love, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Possessions, Quote Author, Quote Topic
So why do we who must still die still seek our joy in perishable things; why do we put so much futile effort into clutching on to this fleeting life? –Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
The sin is caused not by the flesh, but by the will of the soul, and the corruption contracted from sin is not sin, but sin’s punishment.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
