25 August 2009

Patristic Quote of the Day

Why, then, must it be with fear and trembling, and not rather with security, since God is working; except it be because there so quickly steals over our human soul, by reason of our will (without which we can do nothing well), the inclination to esteem simply as our own accomplishment whatever good we do? -- St. Augustine, On Nature and Grace, ch. 31

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