“Shut out the evil love of the world, that you may be filled with the love of God. You are a vessel that was already full: you must pour away what you have, that you may take in what you have not.”

— Aurelius Augustinus

Second Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), p. 274
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)

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early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

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