Quote by David R. Loy

“When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete”…

— The Catholic Church

“We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

— George Orwell

“The more deeply we live, the more we feel in sympathy with Augustine, and the less with Pelagius.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Hence we should all make St. Augustine's prayer our own: "Lord, here cut, here burn and spare me not, but spare me in eternity!”

— Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

“To be empty is to be full. —LAO TZU”

— Ragini Elizabeth Michaels

“As Augustine thought, God will command what he wills and will grant what he commanded.”

— David K. Naugle

Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He only who…

— Robin Jones Gunn

“Augustine can hold that fallen man is free to sin but not free not to sin, yet still possesses free will, because as a…

— Robert A. Peterson

“Something always comes to fill the empty places.”

— Ann Voskamp

“The scripture comes gently, as a mother comes to her child, so that we who can scarcely crawl on the ground are not left…

— Bengt Runo Hoffman

Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean…

— James Stalker

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

— Meister Eckhart