by trueendsblog | Mar 1, 2018 | Steps to Wisdom
For in this frame of mind he extricates himself from every form of fatal joy in transitory things, and turning away from these, fixes his affection on things eternal, to wit, the unchangeable Trinity in unity. And when, to the extent of his power, he has gazed upon...
by trueendsblog | Jan 19, 2018 | Steps to Wisdom
After these two steps of fear and piety, we come to the third step, knowledge, of which I have now undertaken to treat. For in this every earnest student of the Holy Scriptures exercises himself, to find nothing else in them but that God is to be loved for His own...
by trueendsblog | Jan 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
I had intended to return to Augustine’s “Steps to Wisdom” after the Christmas break, but a beautiful moment happened in one of my classes this week that I wanted to share before I go back to that series. In my 7th grade Omnibus class, in which we study the ancients...
by trueendsblog | Dec 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
In keeping with our 2017-18 school year theme, “Stand for Truth,” the tutorial-wide memory verse for the Advent season was John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father,...
by trueendsblog | Dec 6, 2017 | Steps to Wisdom
Following fear of God, which is the first of Augustine’s “Steps to Wisdom,” is what Augustine calls piety. He says that once we recognize that God is in authority over us and we start to learn his commandments, we ought to realize that “whatever...
