Saint Augustine Quotes, Moving Quotes, Hands Quotes

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

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The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

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What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

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Doubt is but another element of faith.

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Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

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Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

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It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

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When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

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Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

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Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

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