“He who knows how to pray well, knows how to live well. —St. Augustine” — David N. Calvillo Copy Share Image
“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For,” — Cindy Crosby Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“as St Augustine put it, was man a mere child playing in the rock pools of a beach ignoring the great ocean… — Paul Doherty Copy Share Image
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth… — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“But Augustine knew the Bible’s main mission: so that we can become people who love God and love others. If our reading… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did… — James Stalker Copy Share Image
As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders,… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him.… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
“Saint Augustine proliferated central theological and political doctrines of the Church, following Saint Paul closely. History is the scene of the struggle… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Augustine, as bishop of Hippo, appointed his monk Antoninus in the 410s to be bishop of a subordinate diocese at Fussala, one… — Chris Wickham Copy Share Image
“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God."… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
“The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge. The metaphor of light is instructive. In our… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Seeing is the property of our eyes. But we also use this word in other senses, when we apply the power of… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image