quotes about Augustine

last updated: November 28, 2023

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped
-- Colin S. Smith

Source : Colin S. Smith (2016). “The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life: Finding Freedom in God's Commands”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
-- Marguerite Young

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As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.
-- Stephen Hawking

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“Life is not a spectator sport.”
“My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.
“Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”

Source : Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA
“He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.191, Ballantine Books
“The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'”
“I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.”
“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
“The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.”
“It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback.”

Source : "Profile: Lifestyle, Sports...And Social Media: An Interview With Chase Jarvis". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. January 31, 2012.