"Things take the time they take. don't worry.……" — Mary Oliver
"Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?"
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210 Quotes by Mary Oliver
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Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or…
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Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious…
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Attention is the beginning of devotion.
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On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
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And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as…
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Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being…
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
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There is only one question: / how to love this world.
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of…
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'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't…
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Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We…
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can…
— Peter Kreeft
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Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and…
— Pope John Paul II
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According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother…
— Louis de Montfort
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Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually…
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As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first…
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The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine…
— Carl Jung
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For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people.…
— Coretta Scott King
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul…
— Robert Barron
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