Hear the words of Augustine...
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Hear the words of Augustine: "All are aware that we live in the house that is called the Bishop's House, and that we follow the example ... of those holy men who are mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles: ‚--ònot one of them said that anything he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.' (Acts 4:32) Since some of you, perhaps, are not sufficiently careful observers of our way of life -- I am saying what it is like ...
I had abandoned my worldly ambition and refused to be what I might have been ... I dissociated myself from those who love the world, and made no effort to be on the level of those who rule the people. Nor did I choose a higher place at my Lord's table but a lower one, much removed. And it pleased him to say to me: Go up higher ... As I sold my meager little estate and gave it to the poor, so also did those who wished to live with me ... What was common to us was that great and most rewarding prize, God Himself." (From The Essential Augustine)
Pursuant to this, William Butler Yeats writes a poem "To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His And Mine."
You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
‚--òTwere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
I had abandoned my worldly ambition and refused to be what I might have been ... I dissociated myself from those who love the world, and made no effort to be on the level of those who rule the people. Nor did I choose a higher place at my Lord's table but a lower one, much removed. And it pleased him to say to me: Go up higher ... As I sold my meager little estate and gave it to the poor, so also did those who wished to live with me ... What was common to us was that great and most rewarding prize, God Himself." (From The Essential Augustine)
Pursuant to this, William Butler Yeats writes a poem "To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His And Mine."
You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
‚--òTwere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
