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“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin...”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
“He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
Reading Progress
| 07/10/2014 | marked as: | currently-reading | ||
| 10/01/2014 | page 42 |
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3.0% | "Is reminded by Augustine that we become, at best, like what we worship." |
| 10/01/2014 | page 52 |
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4.0% | "is moved to worship as Augustine indicts gods who demand plays while disparaging actors and playwrights. Why? My God is honored by the day-to-day process as well as the results." |
| 10/02/2014 | page 111 |
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10.0% | "There were bad things happening in Rome and to Rome LONG before Christianity was an overt factor. Stop blaming the Christians for the loss of the "good old days". Sadly, 21st-century Christians are at least as likely as lost people to mythologize the good old days when we ought to know better than anyone in history that our best days are ahead and are entirely undeserved." |
| 10/02/2014 | page 130 |
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11.0% | "Augustine: "That Roman stability you remember? It was actually pretty bloody." I wonder if history will see the 20th and 21st centuries. In the same perspective?" |
| 10/02/2014 | page 239 |
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21.0% | "Romans stability at its best was provided as a likeness, however limited, of God's good government. Even rulers with no notion of Christ's character can still model themselves after aspects of it." |
| 10/03/2014 | page 257 |
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23.0% | "Not that Augustine is really to be blamed, but his extensive, and well-deserved, attacks on polytheism don't travel as well across the centuries as some of his other material." |
| 10/23/2014 | page 358 |
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32.0% | "The "impression on the soul" by fear-producing stimuli is involuntary. The wise man, though, decide whether to keep reliving the experience and shaping his expectation of the future by it." |
| 10/24/2014 | page 382 |
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34.0% | "never considered asking demons to intercede between him and his God, but any text which points him to the supremacy of Christ as his intercessor is worth reading." |
| 10/25/2014 | page 548 |
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49.0% | "is halfway through this monumental work, reminded by Augustine that God does not operate by fits and starts but can at once be at work and at rest." |
| 12/29/2014 | page 548 |
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49.0% | ""The earthly city which doesn't live by faith seeks an earthly peace."" |
| 12/30/2014 | marked as: | read | ||
