Spiritual Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on What Scripture Asserts)

"Now Scripture asserts nothing but the catholic faith, in regard to things past, future, and present. It is a narrative of the past, a prophecy of the future, and a description of the present. "— St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), On Christian Doctrine, Book 3, Chapter 10 (397 AD)

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on ‘Forgiveness From the Heart’)

“There are many kinds of alms, by which, when we do them, we are helped in obtaining forgiveness of our own sins. But none of these alms is greater than the forgiveness from the heart of a sin committed against us by someone else.”—St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), The Enchiridion: Being a Treatise on Faith, Hope and Love, translated by Professor J. F. Shaw (1883)

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on the Poor and the Rich)

“The poor and the rich God made of one clay; the same earth supports alike the poor and the rich.”— Christian theologian and philosopher St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), Tractates (Lectures) on the Gospel of John, Tractate 6 (John 1:32-33)

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on the ‘Land of Peace’)

“It is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge …and another to tread the road that leads to it.''—St. Augustine (354-430 AD), Confessions

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on Easter)

“And He departed from our sight, that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.”—St. Augustine, Confessions (A.D. 398)

(The image accompanying this post is a detail from the painting Resurrection, by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca.)

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on Spending on the Poor)

“If we are all passing away, let us do something which cannot pass away, that when we shall have passed away, and have come there whence we may not pass away, we may find our good works there. Christ is the keeper, why do you fear lest you should lose what you spend on the poor?”—St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 A.D.), from Sermon 61, translated by R.G. MacMullen, from Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 6, edited by Philip Schaff (1888).

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on the Importance of Jesus' Birth)

“You would have suffered eternal death, had he not been born in time. Never would you have been freed from sinful flesh, had he not taken on himself the likeness of sinful flesh. You would have suffered everlasting unhappiness, had it not been for this mercy. You would never have returned to life, had he not shared your death. You would have been lost if he had not hastened to your aid. You would have perished, had he not come.”— St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 185, on Christmas

Quote of the Day (St. Augustine, on Forgiveness)

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."--St. Augustine, "On Merit and the Forgiveness of Sins, and the Baptism of Infants"