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Presbyter Inspirational Quotes (855)

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
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Prepare thy soul calmly to obey such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.
Pietro Metastasio
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Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.
Henri Nouwen
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If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
Saint Augustine
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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If we knew how to listen to God, we would hear him speaking to us. For God does speak. He speaks in his Gospels. He also speaks through life — that new gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.
Michel Quoist
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Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
Saint Augustine
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.
Henri Nouwen
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Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
Saint Augustine
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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
Henri Nouwen
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You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: Do this! And you did it.
Saint Augustine
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Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive without love, faith dies.
Anthony of Padua
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If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
Saint Augustine
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I choose L'Arche L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.
Henri Nouwen
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Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.
Henri Nouwen
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Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
Henri Nouwen
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Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
Saint Augustine
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Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.
Henri Nouwen
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I am as vast as God there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Angelus Silesius
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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
Henri Nouwen
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.
Paul of the Cross
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Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?
Pietro Metastasio
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I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
Henri Nouwen
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Saint Augustine
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