Saint Augustine Quotes
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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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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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.
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'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).
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Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
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The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present. (p. 193)
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
