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Presbyter Inspirational Quotes (855)

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The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent life is recognizing the coming of the Lord
Henri Nouwen
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Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
Henri Nouwen
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I believe in order to understand
Saint Augustine
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Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.
Pietro Metastasio
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Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
Saint Augustine
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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance to seek him the greatest adventure to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Saint Augustine
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Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Saint Augustine
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You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
Saint Augustine
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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
Saint Augustine
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Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
Saint Augustine
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There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.
Frederick William Faber
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That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that.
Henri Nouwen
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The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.
Pietro Metastasio
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
Henri Nouwen
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The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.
Anthony of Padua
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He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine
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If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
Angelus Silesius
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
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To understand the truth is to do the truth.
Jon Sobrino
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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
Henri Nouwen
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Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions is crucial to finding the answers.
Henri Nouwen
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Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.
Saint Augustine
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Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
Henri Nouwen
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