Quotes Tagged With :augustine

The topic was eloquence, something Christians had been conflicted about since the first-century church....

I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world than....

The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge. The....

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite....

So saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs....

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead....

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author....

A mosaic of memories takes me back to my own childhood, and then to my children. My earliest memory of....

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.....