Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Augustine, Lesslie Newbigin on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Anyone who forbids… grief must forbid, if he can, all friendly conversation: he must prohibit or extinguish affection; he must with ruthless disregard sever the ties of all human companionship, or else stipulate that such companionship must merely be made use of, without giving rise to any delight of soul.’
- Augustine of Hippo
‘At the very [...]
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Augustine, Fyodor Dostoevsky on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘”Remember always, young man,” Father Paissy began, without preface, “that science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of the world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have [...]
Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Augustine, Harry Frankfurt, Soren Kierkegaard on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘When a person desires to love, what he desires is that he be in a position to act with confident and settled purpose. By providing us with final ends… love saves us both from being inconclusively arbitrary and from squandering our lives in vacuous activity that is fundamentally pointless because, having no definitive goal, it [...]
Posted in Theology, tagged Augustine, blog conference on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The timing of deadlines at work conspired to keep me from attending the conference on Paul and Philosophy in Vancouver which will be taking place next month. But I’m very excited to see that the next entry in the increasingly common phenomenon of blog conferences is the following, over at Per Caritatem:
Conversations with Augustine, [...]
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