Thoughts
May 20th
The philosophy of those who deny the resurrection of the body in perverse. They boast about being contemptuous of the body because they believe that it is the prison in which their souls are confined for sins committed some other time in some other place. But, really, our God made both body and soul; He created both and both He recreated.
Sermo 267, 3.
Archivo de Pensamientos Agustinianos
May 21st.
If you hold your body in contempt, consider the price of its redemption.Sermo 82, 13.
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.
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