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Presbyter Inspirational Quotes (855)

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Holland?lies so low they're only saved by being dammed.
Honorius Augustodunensis
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Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
Saint Augustine
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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
Saint Augustine
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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
Saint Augustine
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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 but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
Saint Augustine
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
Saint Augustine
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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.
Saint Augustine
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
Saint Augustine
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He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
Saint Augustine
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Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.
Michel Quoist
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To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
Henri Nouwen
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Henri Nouwen
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As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
Henri Nouwen
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Saint Augustine
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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.
Saint Augustine
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The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
Henri Nouwen
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A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.
Henri Nouwen
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As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.
Romano Guardini
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Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Saint Augustine
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
Saint Augustine
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
Henri Nouwen
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It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
Henri Nouwen
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As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.
Henri Nouwen
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The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.
Henri Nouwen
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