Category Archives: St. Augustine
The Thinker
The Thinker Rodin’s figure appears to be looking inward, but as I worked on this drawing I kept returning to Proverbs. Wisdom is never found by turning inward alone. We search, question, and reflect—not to become self-sufficient, but to become … Continue reading
St. Augustine in His Study
11×14″ acrylic on canvas February 7, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from Augustine’s Confessions (11.2.3): “Lord, perfect me, and open those pages to me. Behold, your voice is my joy, your voice is above a flood of pleasures…. Do … Continue reading
People of the Book: Loving For the Sake of that Toward Which We Are Carried
16×16″ acrylic on canvas February 7, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine: “The plenitude and the end of the Law and of all the sacred Scriptures is the love of a Being which is to … Continue reading
You Breathed Your Fragrance on Me
11×14″ chalk pastels on paper October 12, 2012 Inspired by a line in Augustine’s Confessions, from which the title takes its name.
This Book Changed My Affections
8×10″ charcoal and colored pencil on paper January 5, 2013 Buy original Buy print Inspired by the following lines from The Confessions of St. Augustine: In the ordinary course of study I came upon a book by a certain Cicero…. … Continue reading