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First Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but…
- Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
- Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
- It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation;…
- Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
- 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…
- God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his…
- Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
- They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were…
- The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
- For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will…
- There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
- It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments.…
More First Quotes
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin