The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Saint Augustine encourages a life of simplicity, charity, and community while trusting in a higher power.
This quote by Saint Augustine emphasizes the importance of inner order and simplicity as foundational to a fulfilling life. By advocating for reducing one's desires and living in harmony with Christian values, Augustine promotes a way of life that prioritizes community support, obedience to moral laws, and reliance on divine providence, suggesting that true contentment comes from spiritual rather than material fulfillment.
Themes
SoulCharityCommunityProvidenceSimplicity
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Saint Augustine said, let us order our souls and live in charity.'
More from Saint Augustine
All quotes βThere is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.
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