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Power Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the…
- Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
- Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
- Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to…
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