Augustine The City Of God Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.

Joyce Brothers

#3. 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

#4. Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.

Dallas Willard

#5. One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.

Werner Erhard

#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. I may just be on the outskirts of being okay.

Pawan Mishra

#8. 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

#9. Why the coy drama? I want him and he wants me; who needs subtext?

Diana Peterfreund

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.

Carl I. Hagen

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

Augustine Of Hippo

#14. A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

Bruce Schneier

#16. There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

Ridley Scott

#17. Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

Martin McDonagh

#18. My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style ... I cook from the soul.

Aaron Sanchez

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.

Henri Cole

#24. And there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.

Emily M. Danforth