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This is my question: Does the phrase - “I prefer that you criticize me because then I am corrected, rather than praise me because, then, I am corrupted” – belong to St. Augustine? In which works is it found?
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Answer... José Anoz Gutiérrez
José Anoz Gutiérrez, born in 1943 and an Augustinian Recollect friar since 1962, holds a licentiate in Sacred Scriptures. As member of the team that edits Avgvstinus since 1990, he published San Agustín. Sermones nuevos…
Dear Rodrigo:
I do not find in the “Complete Works” of St. Augustine, at least literally, the lines you quoted.
In his sermons on Psalm 40, 17, which refers to Psalm 140, 5 there is something quite related to your question: [Allow that it be translated freely] “I must bear with flatterers… They praise in me that which I do not want; the little that I have they extol.And flatterers, liars and humbugs censurethat which I highly esteem in my person.”
Till the next time.
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06.02.2012
Submitted by Laura
There is a prayer being circulated and is attributed to Saint Augustine, which aims to console those who recently lost a loved one. You can find this in many places of the Internet. “Do not cry if you love me.” I did not find any reference to any work of the saint. Can you tell me if this prayer belongs to St. Augustine and where can I find the source? To read the response to this question
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02.02.2012
Submitted by Helen
You published in your Web the following notice: “Benedict the XVI grounds himself in St. Augustine as he declares 2012 as ‘Year of Faith’”. Don’t you think it’s a little bit exaggerated? Is Augustine really that great influence in the teachings of Benedict XVI? To read the response to this question
You published in your Web the following notice: “Benedict the XVI grounds himself in St. Augustine as he declares 2012 as ‘Year of Faith’”. Don’t you think it’s a little bit exaggerated? Is Augustine really that great influence in the teachings of Benedict XVI? To read the response to this question
15.12.2011
Submitted by Fray Juan Carlos Andújar Garcés
We know from memory many phrases that explain our Augustinian signs and symbols, but few are capable of citing concrete texts of our Father St. Augustine. Are there texts that explain the meaning of the belt, the book or the flaming heart pierced with an arrow? To read the response to this question
We know from memory many phrases that explain our Augustinian signs and symbols, but few are capable of citing concrete texts of our Father St. Augustine. Are there texts that explain the meaning of the belt, the book or the flaming heart pierced with an arrow? To read the response to this question
02.12.2011
Submitted by Martín
I read recently a wonderful novel, “The Healer of Horses” by Gonzalo Giner, where the protagonist was subjected to a test that consists in memorizing a book in Latin. My attention was caught because it was a book of St. Augustine. The text reads literally: “It was a treatise entitled The Origin of the True and the False” and was written by St. Augustine… then (Diego, the protagonist) closed the book and began to recite (from memory) the first paragraph: Noliforas ire; in teipsumredit; in interiorehominehabitarveritas… (p. 604). What can you say about this? To read the response to this question
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