Tag: Augustine
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Freedom to Fail
An updated version of this post has been published at the Reformed Perspective magazine! It’s been a long time since I shared a “Quotables” post. But I came across a quote this week that reminded me of another quotable I wrote on years ago, about failure. That old post was about the incisive power of…
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Augustine on a Drunk Homeless Man–Augustine Again
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** I’m so glad I’ve been able to pick up Augustine’s Confessions again, and came across this passage of Augustine’s reflections on his encounter with a drunk…
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Shocked by Augustine’s Confessions
This post was originally on my second blog, Reading the Christian Classics. All posts from that blog have now been migrated here, so all my writing is in one place *** Lately I’ve had the leisure to do some more quality reading, as I’ve been laid up with an injury, and I’ve found myself facing Augustine’s Confessions…
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Why Travel?
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Yes, I did a Google search for “travel quotes,” and these two great quotes came up. They sum up so nicely what I love about travelling. Being…
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