Augustine of Hippo: Obedience to the Great Commandment comes at a cost. Are you willing to pay the price?

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“What more could you be told than You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Lk 10:27; Mk 12:31)? So what is well-being for you must be well-being for your friend. As regards the friend’s clothing, Whoever has two shirts, should share with the one who has none; as regards the friend’s food, and whoever has food should do likewise (Luke 3:11). You’re fed, you feed; you’re clothed, you clothe.”

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, (354-430) Sermon 299D.3, trans. Daniel Doyle and Edmund Hill (New York: New City Press, 2007).