Augustine on the Christian Life Quotes

“No longer can the church be seen as a school of moral achievement in which some pupils take all the prizes. On the contrary, it is a hospital for sick sinners, who are cured not by their own inner resources but by the healthy medicine of divine grace.”
― Gerald L. Bray, Augustine on the Christian Life: Transformed by the Power of God

“The Bible is not a self-help manual for our improvement to the point where we are worthy of heaven, but the proclamation of God’s rescue plan, which he devised, carried out, and has now implemented in the mission of the church. The Christian life is therefore an appropriation of that grace, not a striving to achieve something beyond our grasp. It is a message of forgiveness for our sins, not of condemnation for having failed to make the grade.”
― Gerald L. Bray, Augustine on the Christian Life: Transformed by the Power of God

“Like skeptics in every age, the New Academics knew what they were against but not what they were for, so they could never provide an honest seeker after truth like Augustine with the peace of mind that he craved.”
― Gerald L. Bray, Augustine on the Christian Life: Transformed by the Power of God