The Classical Heritage of the Middle AgesFollows the transition in literature from the classical to medieval to show hoe pagan tastes and ideals gave way to the ideals of Christianity. |
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Page 77 - ... fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.
Page 218 - Fecerunt itaque civitates duas amores duo, terrenam scilicet amor sui usque ad contemptum Dei, caelestem vero amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui.
Page 192 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 168 - I desire not the death of a sinner, but that he should repent.
Page 130 - Quid est autem dilectio vel charitas . . . nisi amor boni ? Amor autem alicujus amantis est, et amore aliquid amatur. Ecce tria sunt ; amans, et quod amatur, et amor. Quid est ergo amor, nisi quaedam vita duo aliqua copulans, vel copulare appetens, amantem scilicet et quod amatur...
Page 169 - For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me...
Page 320 - As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so shall the Son of Man be lifted up,
Page 167 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 194 - Cujus si quis velit subtilius mores vitamque cognoscere, potest in eadem institutione regulae omnes magisterii illius actus invenire : quia sanctus vir nullo modo potuit aliter docere quam...
Page 208 - unseasonable kindness' to me. Let me be given to the wild beasts, for through them I can attain unto God. I am God's wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread [of Christ].