"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I was over at Not For Itching Ears and was reminded of a quotation by the early Christian writer Tertullian:
“The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ,
so that the soul too may fatten on God”
– Tertullian (Resurrection of the Dead 8:3)
Since it’s Brandon Vogt‘s birthday today I thought I’d post a quotation from one of his favourite Saints:
It’s now exactly a week until G.K. Chesterton’s birthday…
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
– G. K. Chesterton
“He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.” – St. Augustine
“Yes, the Church is made up of sinners; in fact, it is a hospital for sinners and often looks and smells like a hospital, with ill patients, raw wounds, and disease on every side. Such things bother us and make us uncomfortable, but where else are the wounded and dying to go? They would pass out and die in the desert alongside the dusty trails” – Jeff Cavins, “I’m not being fed!”
“Procure books [of the Bible] that will be medicines for the soul. At least get a copy of the New Testament, the Apostle’s epistles, the Acts, the Gospels, for your constant teachers.
If you encounter grief, dive into them as into a chest of medicines; take from them comfort for your trouble, whether it be loss, or death, or bereavement over the loss of relations.
Don’t simply dive into them. Swim in them. Keep them constantly in your mind. The cause of all evils is the failure to know the Scriptures well.” – St. John Chrysostom
“The Word of God is in your heart. The Word digs in this soil so that the spring may gush out.” – Origen