Augustine Quote by Philip Yancey

“But Augustine knew the Bible’s main mission: so that we can become people who love God and love others. If our reading of the…

— Scot McKnight

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

— Herman Bavinck

... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any…

— John Knox

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

— David K. Naugle

“There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the power exerted over and upon us…

— Jean Bethke Elshtain

'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today…

— Josemaria Escriva

Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if…

— Joseph Sittler

Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when…

— Henry Parry Liddon

“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

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with…

— John Calvin

“Augustine reflects that “what made me a slave to it was the habit [consuetudo] of satisfying an insatiable lust.”31”

— Elaine Pagels

“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