Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine is reported to have said, “God, this is the only problem for me: whatsoever I think is worth doing I… — Osho Copy Share Image
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine observes in one of his Sermons: " There were those who said that certain sins must not be forgiven. They… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“Augustine believed that even when you seem to be enjoying something else, God is the actual source of your joy. The thing… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those… — Thomas F. Madden Copy Share Image
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“Around 400 A.D., Saint Augustine, a prominent Roman bishop, described a pastor's job: Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be… — Saint Augustine a Roman bishop ca. 400 A.D Copy Share Image
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
“Likewise, Augustine made the effort of historical imagination to register to the full the Jewishness of Jesus and the apostles. And now,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“...we have chosen to speak of spirituality ultimately as the way in which we live out our response to God. Unless we… — Janet O. Hagberg Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the… — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
![“Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.” quote by Robert Barron](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/86d/robert-barron-13186_allies_again-i-hear-almost-everyday-from-atheis_35728.jpg)
![“[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know…” quote by C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cd5/c-s-lewis-2-132_adam_milton-s-argument-is-a-st-augustine-was_1338657.jpg)
