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Upon Quotes by Saint Augustine
- 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…
- If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee,…
- God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid…
- ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept;…
- Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
- Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books…
- The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every…
- Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend…
- Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant