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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
John Calvin
Good
Grace
Disagree
Will
Evil
Absent
Faculty
He
Does
Augustine
Teaches
Choose
Reason
Assistance
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work
Truth
Words
Better
Beauty
Nothing
Aim
Our
Splendor
Augustine
Than
Meaning
Meaning Of
Express
Profound
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
Joni Mitchell
Me
Three
Nothing
Sick
Writers
Anne
Make
Augustine
Common
Them
I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
Richard Coles
Myself
First
Past
Christian
Hesitate
Sort
Augustine
Precedent
Paul
Compare
Thing
Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called 'strict constructionists.' Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.
Rodney Stark
Today
Strict
Christian
Insight
Rather
Divine
Leading
Greater
Were
Augustine
Celebrated
Intentions
Gain
Might
Means
Theologians
Reason
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
Barbara G. Walker
Woman
Collective
Has-Been
Responsible
Sexism
Religious
Sin
Since
Announced
Major
Pillar
Tradition
Augustine
Been
Patriarchal
Rabid
Original
Eve
Original Sin
Hence