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One Quotes by Saint Augustine
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come…
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- 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…
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are…
- 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…
- Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh…
- Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways…
- Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone…
- No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
- Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of…
- One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we…
- 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;…
- It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;…
- 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…
- A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal…
- 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…
- Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster