Crumbs from the Master's Table

Augustine: But what do I love when I love my God? Not material beauty or beauty of a temporal order; not the brilliance of earthly light, ...

"When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater, because each adds fuel to the other's fla...

"Come, O Lord, and stir our hearts. Call us back to yourself. Kindle your fire in us and carry us away. Let us scent your fragrance and...

Augustin on grace: Saint Paul teaches that he who sees ought not to boast as though what he sees, and even the power by which he sees, ha...

"Far off, I heard your voice saying I am the God who IS . I heard your voice, as we hear voices that speak to our hearts, and at once I...

St. Augustin's God-besotted God-centeredness in the Confessions  is well known. Reading through the  Confessions , I'm struck also b...

Some have offered critique of how stylized or superstitious or otherwise faulty is the "conversion" of Augustin (e.g., Adolf von H...

Augustine on the charms of friendship: We could talk and laugh together and exchange small acts of kindness. We could join in the pleasure...

"For though they cling together, no friends are true friends unless you, my God, bind them fast to one another through that love which ...

B. B. Warfield: His actual subject is not himself, but the goodness of God; and he [Augustin] introduces his own experiences only as the m...

C. H. Spurgeon on the preacher humbling himself in the pulpit for the sake of coming clear to his listeners: It is said that many of the s...

After being laid low with some illness of late and feeling sluggish in my walk with God for some time, I recall a few favorite paragraphs ou...

Consider Augustine's notion of fellowship and compare it with what we often mean by fellowship.  And ask yourself, whose is richer, whos...

St. Augustine's definition of virtue can scarcely be improved upon: "rightly ordered love" (Book XV, City of God ). Here is...