“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette”
“Solvitur ambulando, St. Augustine said. It is solved by walking.”
“Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!”
“O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, faintheartedness, lust of power, and idle talk.“But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to your servant.“Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen”
“The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'."~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.”