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ladder thus erected is our life in the world which if the heart be humbled, is lifted up by the Lord to heaven. The sides of the same ladder we understand to be our body and soul, in which our divine vocation hath placed various degrees of humility or discipline which we must ascend.
Augustine is known as the great theologian of sin. For this he has been celebrated as a realist and criticized as a pessimist. What modern readers often miss is the deeply humane source and character of Augustine's views about sin.
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1850 Sin is an offense against God: "Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight." 122. Sin sets itself against God's love for us and turns our hearts away from it. Like the first sin, it is disobedience, a revolt against God through the will to become "like gods," 123. knowing and determining good and evil.
The word ascetical comes from the Greek askeein, meaning to practice or exercise in order to acquire a skill, especially an athletic skill. Later the word came to mean the study of philosophy or the practice of virtue, and it was used in this sense by Greek philosophers. St. Paul uses the
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In a nutshell, one's concept of the holiness of God is directly connected to and governed by his understanding of the exceeding sinfulness of sin. The aim of this doctrinal study is to allow the student to clearly see both the purity of the one and the perversion of the other.
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Saints are human, and as such, they make mistakes. They’re not angels, they don’t have wings or halos, and they don’t glow in the dark. Saints are simply sinners who never gave up trying to do and to be better. Confirming miracles The definition of an accepted miracle varies almost as widely as those pro-posed for sainthood.
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The root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man.” 128 But in the heart also resides charity, the source of the good and pure works, which sin wounds. IV.
