David Augsburger Quotes

Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

For me, it's always easy to choose between the Ultimate, the Infinite, and the Chocolate.