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World Quotes by Saint Augustine
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
- This world's a bubble.
- The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
- Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.
- The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
- Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with…
- The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want…
- You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't…
- I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
- Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the…
- What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men…
- As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,…
- The world's verdict is conclusive.
- The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.…
- To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble…
- The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the…
- A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by…
- 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…
- Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
- When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with…
- The verdict of the world is conclusive.
- Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those…
- The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not…
- The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach