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Him Quotes by Saint Augustine
- He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him…
- Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
- Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If…
- He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which…
- God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
- You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so…
- A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and…
- What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at…
- Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they…
- Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
- To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
- If you understood him, it would not be God.
- Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a…
- No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains…
- Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people…
- For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I…
- Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever…
- And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden