Showing posts with label The Meaning of Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Meaning of Man. Show all posts

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - June 18, 2015


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Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.


 St. Augustine


"Accordingly, this seems to me to be one principal reason why the good are chastised along with the wicked, when God is pleased to visit with temporal punishments the profligate manners of a community. They are punished together, not because they have spent an equally corrupt life, but because the good as well as the wicked, though not equally with them, love this present life; while they ought to hold it cheap, that the wicked, being admonished and reformed by their example, might lay hold of life eternal."


(From the City of God) 

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