Augustine on the Healing Power of Christ

Either you don’t know what you should do or, if you do know, you discover that you are too weak to do it. Such confusion and weakness is the root of every evil that we humans do…The important thing is not to give up while the healing [power of Christ in us] is going on. Remember that Jesus loved you when there was little lovely about you at all. Can you imagine what he will do for you when you are finally healed, considering that he died for you when you were still warped and ugly?

—Augustine, Sermons 182, 142