Patience is the beginning of Mindfulness

Love the sinner and hate the sin.
Opera Omnia, Vol II. Col. 962, letter 211

An unjust law is no law at all.
On Free Choice Of The Will, Book 1, § 5
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.


To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
As quoted in Majority of One (1957) by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283

 

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
As quoted in Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
As quoted in The Anchor Book of Latin Quotations: with English translations‎ (1990) by Norbert Guterman, p. 375

Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa charitas est animae pulchritudo.
Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.
Tr. Boniface Ramsey, Homilies on the First Epistle of John (2008: Augustinian Heritage Institute), Ninth Homily

Variant: Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
Tr. H. Browne and J. H. Meyers, Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (1995), The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Ninth Homily, §9

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
As quoted in Footprints in Time : Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life (2007) by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223


Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 20 August 430)

(As quoted in Distilled Wisdom: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form‎ (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 270)








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