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Mind Quotes by Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
- The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
- Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it…
- Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
- Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past…
- The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than…
- That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
- The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
- Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches…
- When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of…
- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty…
- A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through…
- It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the…
- The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
- The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it…
More Mind Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Why can't I just tell you how I feel? That you're constantly on my mind...that I'm crazy about you. Maybe it's because… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale