Saint Augustine Quotes

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

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• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  

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• I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

  

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• I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

  

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• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

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• I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.

  

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• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

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• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

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• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

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• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
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• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

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• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

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• I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
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• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

  

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

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• The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

  

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• Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.

  

  Benito Juarez
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• There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Giving
  • Suffering