Saint Augustine Quotes
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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Each day is a little life.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
