Quotes about Augustine

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No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they co — Augustine of Hippo, Letters of St. Augustine
I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world than in the Christian — Umberto Eco, Belief or Nonbelief?
I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me. — Augustine of Hippo
Descending south into St. Augustine’s Historic District along A1A, visitors are immediately confronted by an edifice whi — James Caskey
St. Augustine is not only the oldest continuously-occupied European settlement on the American continent, it is also per — James Caskey, St. Augustine Ghosts: Hauntings in the Ancient City
Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny. — Augustine of Hippo
The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church when Paul wrote t — Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge. The metaphor of light — R.C. Sproul, Consequences of Ideas
It was pride that changed angels into devils — it is humility that makes men as angels.
Prayer is the key that opens heaven — the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
432In the end, grace may prove irresistible, but love can never be forced. Augustine knew this. — James Wetzel
Right is right even if no one is doing it — wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
There is much: recognition of the fact that human beings live indeterminate and incomplete lives; recognition of the pow — Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics
Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path mus — Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan
A mosaic of memories takes me back to my own childhood, and then to my children. My earliest memory of St. Augustine was — H. Kirk Rainer
Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith, The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life
St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable pe — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, an — Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other — John Piper
I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sobe — Roman Payne, The Wanderess