The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
Saint AugustineRead
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Interpretation
Beauty is a divine gift that is given to everyone, including those who may not deserve it.
In this quote, Saint Augustine reflects on the nature of beauty as a gift from God. He suggests that beauty, while good and desirable, is not exclusively reserved for the virtuous; instead, it is distributed even to the wicked. This notion prompts deeper philosophical considerations about the nature of goodness, merit, and the relationship between aesthetic value and moral character.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of beauty in a philosophy class.
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher's or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself - Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
While you have a thing it can be taken from youβ¦..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what our Church teaches... We are living in a world saturated with all kinds of voices. Perhaps now, more than ever, we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us.
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