Saint Augustine Orthodox Quotes & Sayings

I'll never forget the club or him I don't see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger — Thierry Henry

I'll go to bed, forget myself in sleep. — Mikhail Bulgakov

I remembered Ignifex's smirk and his confident words: I can wait all I want and still have you.
And I thought, Here is one thing he isn't getting. Standing on my toes, I kissed Shade on the lips.
It was just a bump of my face against his. Despite Aunt Telomache's lecture, I had no idea how long to prolong a kiss, and his lips startled me, foreign and cool as glass. But then he caught me under the chin and gently kissed my mouth open. Though his lips were still cool, his breath was warm; as he kissed me. I breathed in time to him, until I felt like my body was only a breath of air mixing with his. — Rosamund Hodge

Some Western Christians read the story as a factual account of the Original Sin that condemned the human race to everlasting perdition. But this is a peculiarly Western Christian interpretation and was introduced controversially by Saint Augustine of Hippo only in the early fifth century. The Eden story has never been understood in this way in either the Jewish or the Orthodox Christian traditions. However, we all tend to see these ancient tales through the filter of subsequent history and project current beliefs onto texts that originally meant something quite different. — Karen Armstrong

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation. — Robert Kiyosaki

Luck never gives; it lends. — Ann Brashares

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material ... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. — Jonathan Swift

Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand.
Secure, insensible. — Charles Wesley

I want to be your life. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Choice is destiny's soul mate. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

I like your story," I say, running my hand up his sweater. "Happy endings are sexy." Ford grins. "When you say shit like that, I can't believe you don't hear how fucking dirty you sound. — Bijou Hunter

It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process
what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands
those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion. — Silken Laumann