Bible Quote by Scot McKnight

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

— David K. Naugle

“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

“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

“It tells us that God gave the Bible a mission: God speaks to us so we will be the kind of people he wants…

— Scot McKnight

“AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For,”

— Cindy Crosby

“By clearly delimiting the role of secular powers, Augustine helped set Western Christendom on a course in which the believer's duties to God (however…

— Vincent Carroll

“God loves each of us as if there is only one of us. St. Augustine”

— Karen Malena

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

— Elaine Pagels

“THE VERY ORDER, DISPOSITION, BEAUTY, CHANGE AND MOTION OF THE WORLD AND OF ALL VISIBLE THINGS SILENTLY PROCLAIM THAT IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN…

— Louie Giglio

“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