Augustine City Of God Quotes

#1. no man is the slave either of another man or of sin": Augustine, City of God 19.15, ed. and trans. R. W. Dyson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 943.

Andy Crouch

#2. I hit big or I miss big.

George Herman

#3. Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

Ralph Hall

#4. These reports that are not explained by natural phenomena or exploding outhouses are known as UFO's, which is the official abbreviation for Unidentified Flying Objects. I suppose it could also stand for Uncommonly Fat Orangutans, but in this case it does not.

Cuthbert Soup

#5. The things we love individually not only determine our character, but what a society loves collectively shapes its culture. This latter idea was the heart of Augustine's great work City of God. He believed societies are the mutual associations of individuals united by what they love in common.

Timothy J. Keller

#6. The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. That which man builds man destroys, but the city of God is built by God and cannot be destroyed by man. AUGUSTINE

Charles W. Colson

#8. Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here."

Ernie J Zelinski

#9. Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

Misty Copeland

#10. The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Augustine Of Hippo

#11. To spare the conquered, and beat down the proud.

Augustine Of Hippo

#12. They all stared at him in mute agreement. Intelligence and kindness in their stares. No one would misbehave.

D.K. Cassidy

#13. Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

Peter S. Beagle

#14. Just as truly as the Confessions are the autobiography of St. Augustine, The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints.

Augustine Of Hippo

#15. In The City of God Augustine says: "The will, therefore, is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Such was it given us by God; and this being lost by its own fault, can only be restored by Him who was able at first to give it.

R.C. Sproul

#16. Thus the quarrel that arose between Remus and Romulus demonstrated the division of the earthly city against itself; while the conflict between Cain and Abel displayed the hostility between the two cities themselves, the City of God and the city of men. Thus

Augustine Of Hippo

#17. The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#18. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

Matt Chandler

#19. That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

Ransom Riggs

#20. Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

Saint Augustine