#st. augustine

“God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.”

“Augustine would tell us that the real problem with the world is bigger than abortion or poverty or climate change or family breakdown, and it’s much more stubborn. The real problem with the world is us. As Augustine said in his sermons, it’s no use complaining about the times, because we are the times. How we live shapes them. And when we finally learn to fill our hearts with something more than the noise and narcotics of the wounded societies we helped create; when we finally let our hearts rest in God as Augustine did; then—and only then—the world will begin to change, because God will use the witness of our lives to change it.”