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Presbyter Inspirational Quotes (856)

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Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
Saint Augustine
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Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning and these three last have never converted any.
Frederick William Faber
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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
Saint Augustine
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Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.
Henri Nouwen
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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.
Saint Augustine
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Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
Angelus Silesius
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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
Saint Augustine
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If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.
Saint Augustine
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All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
Saint Augustine
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Today's reading was if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. You have chances every second to live this Word, but it has to be in you. It can't just be an idea it has to sink from the mind into the heart.
Henri Nouwen
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In the house of God there is never ending festival the angel choir makes eternal holiday the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
Saint Augustine
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I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Henri Nouwen
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Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
Saint Augustine
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We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do.
Henri Nouwen
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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
Saint Augustine
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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Saint Augustine
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The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.
Saint Augustine
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With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.
Miguel de Molinos
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Beware of bad Catholics.
Saint Augustine
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Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
Saint Augustine
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Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
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Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
Henri Nouwen
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We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land
Lorenzo Snow
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