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Presbyter Inspirational Quotes (855)

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True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.
Saint Augustine
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When I get to the Good Place I will continue to fight the Devil even harder.
Gabriele Amorth
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Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
Paul of the Cross
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
Saint Augustine
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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
Saint Augustine
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When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
Henri Nouwen
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If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, Love me! and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.
Henri Nouwen
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him He will welcome you and heal you.
Saint Augustine
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Saint Augustine
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
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The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
Angelus Silesius
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Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNabb
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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
Saint Augustine
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
Saint Augustine
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
Saint Augustine
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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
Saint Augustine
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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
Saint Augustine
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Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
Paul of the Cross
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When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.
Henri Nouwen
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I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.
Henri Nouwen
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Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
Saint Augustine
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Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
Henri Nouwen
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God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
Angelus Silesius
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