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Presbyter Inspirational Quotes (855)

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It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Luigi Orione
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It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week do things better today than we did them yesterday
Lorenzo Snow
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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
Saint Augustine
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
Saint Augustine
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The world is evil only when you become its slave.
Henri Nouwen
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...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
Henri Nouwen
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To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
Saint Augustine
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He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things but he who acts otherwise can never do any good.
Paul of the Cross
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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
Saint Augustine
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The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
Saint Augustine
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.
Henri Nouwen
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Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
Henri Nouwen
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What can be hoped for which is not believed?
Saint Augustine
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Doubt is but another element of faith.
Saint Augustine
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
Saint Augustine
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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
Saint Augustine
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Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
Henri Nouwen
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What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
Henri Nouwen
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So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.
Saint Augustine
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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
Saint Augustine
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What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.
Henri Nouwen
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Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
Saint Augustine
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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
Saint Augustine
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Saint Augustine
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