Thoughts
May 21st
If you hold your body in contempt, consider the price of its redemption.
Sermo 82, 13.
Archivo de Pensamientos Agustinianos
May 22nd.
Our body was an ornament for man; we sinned and because of sin we were shackled. What are these shackles? Mortality itself.Enarrationes in psalmos 145, 17.
May 23rd.
Your creature has become a spectacle for me; I have searched for the Maker in his work, and in the created, the Creator.Enarrationes in psalmos 142,10
May 24th.
Thus, if there is no member of the body, at least in those which are seen, and, this no one doubts, which is not useful in some way and which is not, at the same time an embellishment. And, of these some are only ornamental without any obviously useful function. I would therefore conclude that when the Creator made the body, He placed beauty ahead of necessity. This is so since the time of necessity will pass and the time of enjoying beauty alone without any malice whatsoever is yet to come.De Civitate Dei XXII, 24, 4.
May 25th.
Look at the marvelous agility given to the tongue so apt for speaking and the hands so convenient for writing and accomplishing all sorts of works of skill and art! Doesn’t this demonstrate how excellent this body which has been adapted to so wonderful a soul?De Civitate Dei XXII, 24, 4.
May 26th.
The man whose soul is governed by the spirit and whose soul governs his body, which cannot be done with God’s grace, is called spiritual.De diversis quaestionibus LXXXIII q.67, 5.
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