#augustine

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#augustine #being #celebrated #ceremony #church

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ↗

— Marguerite Young

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#been #bible #experimental #influenced #saint

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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#charity #christianity #saint-augustine #scripture #life