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Would Be Quotes by Saint Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure…
- It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation;…
- O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can…
- God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless…
- 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…
- Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should…
- So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to…
- We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn…
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- I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid… — Anthony Bourdain
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson