Starting Habits for Intellectual Study as a Mom | Mother Academia | Classical Charlotte Mason
What do I love when I long for achievement? That is the Augustinian question.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
If Augustine spent half his life battling the heresy of Pelagianism—the pretension that the human will was sufficient to choose its good—it’s because he saw it as the great lie that left people enchained to their dissolute wills. And no one is more Pelagian than we moderns.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
“Write early in the morning, cultivate memory, reread core books, take detailed reading notes, work on several projects at once, maintain a thick archive, rotate crops, take a weekly Sabbath, go to bed at the same time, exercise so hard you can’t think during it, talk to different kinds of people including the very young and very old, take words an... See more
We are treating as ultimate what is only penultimate; we are heaping infinite, immortal expectations on created things that will pass away; we are settling on some aspect of the creation rather than being referred through it to its Creator.