Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.
Correction badly undertaken creates distance.
(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Run your race. It's the only one that will count in eternity.
Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God...
We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.
We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7
DOING is often God's remedy for despair.
There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.
It is by suffering that Christ brings it in to the kingdoms of this world
I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.
Character is the main object of education.
Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?
The more broken you are, the more light gets through.
Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?
In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.
I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.
Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way
God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to tak...
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence