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Saint Augustine: The Immortality of the Soul; The Magnitude of the Soul; On Music; The Advantage of Believing; On Faith in Things Unseen is unavailable, but you can change that!

The rich Christian heritage of East and West comes alive in the volumes of The Fathers of the Church, a series widely praised for its brilliant scholarship and unparalleled historical, literary, and theological significance. This volume contains multiple short works of Augustine’s, exploring the theology, philosophy, and ascetics throughout his life.

And what is worse than this error and inequality? And so we are advised to turn away from the enjoyment of things imitating equality. For we cannot perceive whether they perfectly fill out their time, although we can perhaps perceive they do not perfectly do so. And yet in so far as they imitate we cannot deny they are beautiful in their kind and order. (29) Let’s not, then, be envious of things inferior to ourselves, and let us, our Lord and God helping, order ourselves between those
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