Resonances

As the leader of the Mediterranean church, Augustine once received a letter from a Roman Christian, Laurentius, who was trying to flesh out the meaning of his faith as he watched his own civilization beginning to crumble. Laurentius asked, "What do we believe?"

Augustine replied in part, "...when there is a question as to whether a man is good, one does not ask what he believes, or what he hopes, but what he loves." (via Gideon Strauss)