And thus beauty, which is indeed God's handiwork, but only a temporal, carnal and lower kind of good, is not fitly loved in preference to God, the eternal, spiritual and unchangeable good. When the miser prefers his gold to justice, it is through no fault of the gold, but of the man; and so with every created thing. For though it be good, it may be loved with an evil as well as with a good love: it is loved rightly when it is loved ordinately, evilly, when inordinately (Augustine City of God p510, emphasis mine).
These are the kind of sentences that I want to ring in my children's ears throughout their lives, that they would learn the wisdom of God having the supremacy, and all other good things having their proper place as they are loved ordinately.
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