Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St…

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from…

— Richard Dawkins

For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood…

— Coretta Scott King

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, then the path must…

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a…

— Terryl L. Givens

“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is…

— Anne Rice

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the…

— Blaise Pascal

Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean…

— James Stalker

“I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.”

— Don DeLillo

People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment…

— David Stove

Patience is the companion of wisdom. --Saint Augustine

— Saint Augustine

There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of…

— Robert Barron

The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been…

— Roberto Esposito