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“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart from any…

— Vincent Carroll

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

— David K. Naugle

“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

“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

“This study is written with the conviction that our fundamental need in Western Christianity is to repent of our low and unworthy views of…

— John Snyder

“in Augustine with this expression, - "God crowns not our merits but his own gifts; and the name of reward is given not to…

— John Calvin

“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

“While we may lament the loss we experience in Western Christianity, we should acknowledge that it may be God’s will that oppressive Western systems…

— Soong-Chan Rah

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

“In the process we have unnecessarily (and unbiblically) drawn a line of distinction, assigning the obligations of Christianity to a few while keeping the…

— David Platt

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

— Herman Bavinck

“It was actually in the Atlantic West that we first witnessed the paradox of religious fundamentalism: that it reflects the weakening of religious conviction.”

— Pankaj Mishra