“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
“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“He who knows how to pray well, knows how to live well. —St. Augustine” — David N. Calvillo Copy Share Image
“I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page' St. Augustine of Hippo” — Monica Joseph 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 conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart.… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God;… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“We will never make it under our own stem. Having made this connection, Augustine falls apart. What he describes at this point… — Thomas Cahill 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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox 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
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
[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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“As Augustine thought, God will command what he wills and will grant what he commanded.” — David K. Naugle Copy Share Image
“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette” — Marie Clair Copy Share Image
“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.” — Zin Murphy 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
![“[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/quotes/img-quotes/cd5/c-s-lewis-2-132_adam_milton-s-argument-is-a-st-augustine-was_1338657.jpg)
