Saint Augustine Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““I have become an enigma to myself. So said Saint Augustine. And herein lies my sickness.”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Saint Augustine
“AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For,” — Cindy Crosby Copy Share Image
“The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.” — Zin Murphy 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
“lies would be a necessity. Soon enough, my lies would become routine, the destiny of anyone in my circumstances: I was a heretic among… — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
“I was becoming more miserable, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was continually ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to wash… — Hieromonk Damascene Copy Share Image
“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette” — Marie Clair Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often,” he said. “ ‘God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.’ And maybe that is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Your world, your universe, the people and situation around you, are all an enigma. You only are the only truth, but... you have to… — Ayaz Kohli Copy Share Image
“When I read Saint Augustine’s writings, I do not get the impression that he is a man who died more or less 1,600 years… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors.” — Hilda van Stockum Copy Share Image
“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.” — Mel Starr Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Then he withdrew in silence, but shaking his head as though inwardly exclaiming, “An Unbeliever.” No! low as I have fallen, I am not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Where the African church failed was in not carrying Christianity beyond the Romanized inhabitants of the cities and the great estates, and not sinking… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“And I read something else," Jacob goes on. "There was this discussion of the story of Cain and Abel, from the Bible. After Cain… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
“The most glorious triumphs of the Church have been won in times of persecution. The early church was persecuted for about three hundred years… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don’t be stupid. “Shall we say, then,” he wrote about Genesis, “there was such a sense… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“The tension between religion and science is an old problem. In the fourth century, Christians and scientists were deadlocked over the matter of the… — Ronald W. Dworkin Copy Share Image
“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and on, all… — Dan Brown 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 feet each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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