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Doe Quotes by Saint Augustine
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has…
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other…
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what…
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
- I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
- Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the…
- For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say,…
- Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation…
- The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it…
- And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
- In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
- It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be…
- This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
- There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive…
- For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt…
- He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.
- Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
- To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood