She herself is our home
“Of [drawing near to God] we would be quite incapable, unless Wisdom herself had seen fit to adapt herself even to such infirmity as ours, and had given us an example of how to live, in no other mode than the human one, because we too are human. But we, of course, when we come closer to her, are acting wisely; so when she came to us, she was thought by proud men to have acted rather foolishly. And when we come close to her, we grow strong; so when she came to us she was reckoned to have been made weak. But the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men (1 Cor 1:25). So since she herself is our home, she also made herself for us into the way home.”
— St Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana I.11.11
11 April 2007 |
tags: Augustine, Patristics
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