[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
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 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
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
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
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
St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as… — Richard Dawkins 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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine. — Martin Luther 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
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
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
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
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 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
It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
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