Saint Augustine Quotes

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Simple

• Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • World
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judging

• I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Write
  • First
  • Guilty

• Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Opportunities
  • London

• I don't have a lot of friends.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Friends
  • Lots Of Friends

• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Desire
  • Teach

• It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Inspired
  • Bible
  • Holy Spirit

• Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Conversation
  • Personal

• When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Magic

• If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Reality
  • Jesus

• Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Actors
  • Directors
  • Taught

• Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Opportunity
  • Dreaming
  • Limitations

• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Country
  • Greek
  • Torture

• Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hope
  • Sin
  • Forgiveness

• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Sin
  • Longer
  • Forsake