More willing to give
February 9, 2008, 5:04 pm
Posted by Joseph A. Komonchak
Our Lord Jesus Christ … would not so strongly urge us to ask unless he were willing to give. Human laziness should be ashamed: he is more willing to give than we are to receive; he is more willing to show us mercy than we are to be freed from our misery.
Erubescat humana pigritia: plus vult ille dare, quam nos accipere: plus vult ille misereri, quam nos a miseria liberari.(Augustine, Sermon 105, 1; PL 38, 619)
