ust from the
fact that you try to avoid evil, you improve yourself, and you begin to
desire what is good. When you begin to desire what is good, there will
be a chaste fear in you.July 29
Chaste Fear
ust from the
fact that you try to avoid evil, you improve yourself, and you begin to
desire what is good. When you begin to desire what is good, there will
be a chaste fear in you.
That fear by which you fear being cast into hell with the devil is not yet chaste, since it does not come from the love of God but from the fear of punishment. But when you fear God in the sense that you do not wish to lose him, you embrace him, and you desire to enjoy him.
-- Sermon on 1 John 9, 5
Prayer. Lord, I now love you alone, I follow you alone, and I seek you alone. I yearn to be possessed by you.
-- Soliloquies 1, 1
| Tradition Day By Day | The Augustinians - St. Thomas of Villanova Province |
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Augustine Day by Day: Minute Meditations for Every Day Taken from the Writings of Saint Augustine. Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York, 1986.
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