Augustinian Quotes & Sayings

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation ... surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air. — Eric Maskin

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you. — Wes Fesler

Classical apologetics operates with a very modern notion of reason; "presuppositional" apologetics, on the other hand, is postmodern (and Augustinian!) insofar as it recognizes the role of presuppositions in both what counts as truth and what is recognized as true. — James K.A. Smith

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy. — Elena Kagan

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife. — Germaine Greer

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church. — Johnny Hunt

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists. — Keith Olbermann

The sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists. It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against the Aristotelian liberality. — G.K. Chesterton

Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all. — Adil Hussain

I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian. — John Green

After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies. — Angelina Jolie

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! — Israel Zangwill

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love. — Dallas Willard

People are different, writers are different, and the motivations can come from anywhere. — Brian Lageose

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. — Mitt Romney

Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself. — Yogi Berra

The Masonic movement ... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man. — Alice Bailey

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion. — Janelle Monae

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time. — Craig D. Lounsbrough