Question

"Marketing experts say children (and dogs) are even more effective than sex in advertising. Why? Because children and dogs are still filled with a natural hope and expectation that their smile will be returned. They tend to make direct eye contact with you, looking right into you, just grinning away (unless, of course, they have been abused)." Question: How would Saint Augustine of Hippo handled this situation??

Answer 1

Saint Augustine of Hippo would suggest that children possess the virtue of hope. This makes pure, innocent at heart. Any individual who has got a bit of humanity or love could not resist this flow of purity and hope. Jesus Christ too proclaimed that in order to enter the Kingdom of God one has to receive with that hope that a child has. This hope of children surpasses all extremities of sufferings. The adults would give up their hope in severe adversities but not the children, because it is divine,pure, and has an uninterrupted flow.