“He who knows how to pray well, knows how to live well. —St. Augustine” — David N. Calvillo 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
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
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
“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
“That which man builds man destroys, but the city of God is built by God and cannot be destroyed by man. AUGUSTINE” — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“For “what the soul is to the body of man,” Saint Augustine was to write, “that the Holy Spirit is to the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? — Marguerite Young 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 observes in one of his Sermons: " There were those who said that certain sins must not be forgiven. They… — Joseph Pohle 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
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
'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
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
“St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis. (It… — Stephen Hawking 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
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
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
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
“...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
“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
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll 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
“Around 400 A.D., Saint Augustine, a prominent Roman bishop, described a pastor's job: Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be… — Saint Augustine a Roman bishop ca. 400 A.D 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Saint Augustine proliferated central theological and political doctrines of the Church, following Saint Paul closely. History is the scene of the struggle… — Norman F. Cantor 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
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
“... 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
