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Us Quotes by Saint Augustine
- The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word…
- If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are…
- God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
- Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is…
- 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…
- It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be…
- God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
- Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
- Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no…
- God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
- It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments.…
- You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and…
- Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong