While preparing for a sermon on mercy in a couple of weeks I came across this quote from Augustine of Hippo. I’m not sure whether it will make it in to the sermon or not, but I thought I’d share it here.

Your hear the voice of a beggar, but before God you yourself are a beggar. Someone is begging from you, while you yourself are begging. As you treat your beggar, so will God treat his. You who are empty are being filled. Out of your own fill a person in need, so that your own emptiness may again be filled by the fullness of God.