Desire in prayer…
God wills that our desire should be exercised in prayer, that we may be able to receive what He is prepared to give.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Always be prepared…
That God has promised you pardon when you amend your life, I cannot deny. But tell me, pray: I agree and I grant you and I know that God has promised you forgiveness. But who has promised you tomorrow? Where you read that you will receive forgiveness, when you do penance, read for me also how much longer you have to live. It is not there, you say. Therefore you do not know how long more you have to live. Then reform your life, and be always prepared.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Know one’s imperfection…
It is the function of perfection to make one know one’s imperfection.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Cost of obedience…
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Be fit for future…
None can become fit for the future life, who has not practiced himself for it now.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Be mindful of the poor…
Be particularly mindful of the poor, so that what you take from yourself by living sparingly you may lay away in heavenly treasures. Let the needy Christ receive that of which the fasting Christian deprives himself. Let the self-restraint of the willing soul be the sustenance of the one in need. Let the voluntary neediness of the one possessing an abundance become the necessary abundance of the one in need.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
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