131 - Virtue Is Not Enough - J. Budziszewski
The Catholic Culture Podcast
Augustine's Criticism of the Stoics
Augustine's belief in an afterlife allows him to be honest about sufferings in this life. One of the most hair-raising passages that I've ever read about the ills and the sorrows of this life is in Augustine. A non-believing person might read Augustine and think, oh, what a terribleLife he must have lived,. He saw only blackness. No, he was pretty cheerful. But his eyes were fixed on that perfect happiness, which will one day wipe the tears from the eyes of the oppressed.
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