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Order Quotes by Saint Augustine
- The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
- I believe in order to understand
- Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought…
- For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
- Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
- Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
- Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
- To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
- Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so…
- Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
- In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
- 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…
- I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which…
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- The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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