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Wish Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
- 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…
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try…
- And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though…
- Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
- 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…
- Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one…
- Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will…
- That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
- 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…
- He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
More Wish Quotes
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Morning is a wonderful opportunity to wish, to love, to care, to smile and to see you in a good mood. — Pacifiersucker
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what… — Michel de Montaigne
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton