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It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century ce notes: ‘I was put to school to get learning of which I knew not what use there was; and yet, if slow to learn I was flogged.’
Gary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
— Augustine of Hippo
Augustinian term, is totus Christus, the whole Christ,
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
for Augustine the journey inward was an open battle with devils and demons. Augustine’s pastoral practice gave us an inner self, but this self, to use Taylor’s language, was porous.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
good and wicked men. Will some one say, Why, then,
St. Augustine • The City of God: By St. Augustine - Illustrated
ST. ALPHONSUS MARY DE LIGUORI (d. 1787) was seen at two different locations at the same time, once being seen in the pulpit preaching a sermon and at the same time being in the confessional.
Joan Carroll Cruz • Mysteries, Marvels and Miracles: In the Lives of the Saints
What Augustine offers us is a slant of detachment—a recognition of the power of sexual desire with a resistance to letting it define anyone.