All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France 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
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him.… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it,… — Josemaria Escriva 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
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
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out… — Stephen Hawking 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
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Seeing is the property of our eyes. But we also use this word in other senses, when we apply the power of… — Augustine of Hippo 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
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
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
