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
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
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
People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But… — David Stove 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
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
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
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
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
For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and… — Coretta Scott King 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 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
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine. — Thomas Aquinas 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
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
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 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
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith 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
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
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
Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine? — Mary Oliver 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
But the blessing Christ promised, the blessing of great reward, is a reward of grace. The blessing is promised even though it… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
