Laudislaus,
I keep finding glaring omissions in emoticons.
Anyway, we needs a hat's off emoticon. Very impressive.
When I went to college, I actually found that I had a lot of extra time on my hands. I took Latin and Greek classes and was required to read St. Augustine for one of them. After I got a taste of his writing and thinking and his spirit, I wanted to read everything I could get my hands on. It's interesting to watch his progression from his early days, where he sounded more like a secular philosopher who happened to believe in God to his later days when he was an incredibly mature theologian. From beginning to end, however, he was a deep thinker. And, most likely due to his own past, he was an extremely humble and compassionate man. He's often depicted as holding his heart.