"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice." - Anonymous
Augustine narrating an experience says, "I was weeping in the most
bitter contrition of my heart, when I heard the voice of children from a
neighboring house chanting, "take up and read; take up and read." I
could not remember ever having heard the like, so checking the torrent
of my tears, I arose, interpreting it to be no other than a command from
God to open the book and read the first chapter I should find. Eagerly
then I returned to the place where I had laid the volume of the apostle.
I seized, opened, and in silence read that section on which my eyes
first fell: "Not in revelry and drunkenness, not in licentiousness and
lewdness, not is strife and envy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts."
