Augustine Quote by Frances Xavier Cabrini

When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound…

— Justin Martyr

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

— Terry Pratchett

“Of course, there were innumerable conversions during these years, as Christianity became the religion of Western Europe and Christendom took its characteristic shape. Many…

— Alan Kreider

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

— Diane Arbus

“Repentance, rebirth, and conversion were exchanged for cheap grace, and the integrity of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus faded. People…

— Shane Claiborne

“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. The…

— C.S. Lewis

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease,…

— Donald Cargill

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted…

— John Stuart Mill

“Since the days of Christ, these men we have mentioned have changed the world. Paul, Augustine, Luther, Calvin and Wesley—these have been great men…

— Desmond Ford

It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process,…

— Susan Jacoby

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no…

— H. G. Wells

“Likewise, Augustine made the effort of historical imagination to register to the full the Jewishness of Jesus and the apostles. And now, he wrote…

— Simon Schama