Saint Augustine Quotes
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Quotes to Explore
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
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Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?
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If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
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Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.
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Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
