This quote made me think. If truth is like a lion, what are truth tellers in an age of deception? Are they the ones who let lose the lion or do they become the lion? Also, it made me understand why Jesus Christ is often depicted as a lion. Was he the truth let loose in the world? Alexander Solzhenitsyn told the truth didn’t he? John Brown acted upon the truth didn’t he?
Who was Augustine of Hippo exactly? Wikipedia has the following:
Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius in north Africa and is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Period. Among his most important works are The City of God, De doctrina Christiana and Confessions. He lived from 354 to 430 AD.
Fast forward to today and think upon how far we have strayed from these teachings. Everyone has their own truth according to social justice thinking. Augustine of Hippo would blink incredulously at the poor intellect. Like many of my heroes, he is a stranger to the modern mind. Yet, his words are easily found on the internet. Here are a few more.
“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
“The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.”
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
“God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.”