“What is it that I love in loving You? Not physical beauty, nor the splendor of time, nor the radiance of the light, so pleasant to our eyes, nor the sweet melodies of songs of all kinds, nor the flagrant smell of flowers, and ointments, and spices, nor manna and honey, nor limbs pleasant to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Augustine’
April 7, 2009
“The most edifying product of Augustine’s pen” by Philip Schaff
“The Confessions are the most profitable, at least the most edifying, product of Augustine’s pen; indeed, we may say, the most edifying book in all the patristic literature. They were accordingly the most read even during his lifetime, and they have been the most frequently published since. A more sincere and more earnest book was never written… [...]
February 28, 2009
“Tears of gladness” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)
“The days were all too short, for I was lost in wonder and joy, meditating upon Your far-reaching providence for the salvation of the human race. The tears flowed from me when I heard Your hymns and canticles, for the sweet singing of Your Church moved me deeply. The music surged in my ears, truth [...]
February 28, 2009
“I make progress by writing” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)
“I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress– by writing.”
–Aurelius Augustine, as quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967/2000), 354.
February 28, 2009
“The Scriptures are deep” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)
“For such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures that, even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else, from boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and with talents greater than I possess, I would still be making progress in discovering their treasures.”
–Aurelius Augustine, as quoted [...]
February 28, 2009
“Otherworldly in the world” by Peter Brown
“The City of God, far from being a book about flight from the world, is a book whose recurrent theme is ‘our business within this common mortal life’; it is a book about being otherworldly in the world.”
–Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967/2000), 324.
February 28, 2009
“Many of the brethren have enjoyed them” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)
“Thirteen books of my Confessions, which praise the just and good God in all my evil and good ways, and stir up towards Him the mind and feelings of men: as far as I am concerned, they had this effect on me when I wrote them, and they still do this, when now I read [...]
February 28, 2009
“A ‘miracle’ for Augustine” by Peter Brown
“A ‘miracle’ for Augustine was just such a reminder of the bounds imposed on the mind by habit. In a universe in which all processes happen by the will of God, there need be nothing less remarkable in the slow, habitual processes of nature. We take for granted the slow miracle by which water in [...]
February 28, 2009
“The study of Augustine” by Peter Brown
“The study of Augustine is endless.”
–Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967/2000), x.
February 8, 2009
“My holy Delight” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)
“You, my God, are supreme, utmost in goodness, mightiest and all-powerful, most merciful and most just. You are the most hidden from us and yet the most present amongst us, the most beautiful and yet the most strong, ever enduring and yet we cannot comprehend You. You are unchangeable and yet You change all things. [...]
