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St. Augustine

Useful terms and quotes:

“Perhaps the degree of pain one experiences is related to the lack of connection with Source.” (Astrology blogger)

“We work by faith, not by sight.” (Red Maven)

“Agnosticism is an evil when it contends not only that an individual mind knows nothing but also that no other mind knows anything. In this sense, it is cowardly because it runs away from the problems of life. Only about 10% of people think for themselves. Columnists write things for the greater percent of the remainder. Those who are left are the agnostics, who think agnosticism is an answer to the riddle of life. Agnosticism is not an answer. It is not even a question.” (Bishop Fulton Sheen)

“Coherence is the state when the heart, mind, and emotions are in energetic alignment and cooperation. It is a state that builds resilience.” (Dr. Rollin McCraty)

“What does it look like when we know what we want?” (Alex Colliere)

“You must know yourself and that means being confronted by your weaknesses.” (Rory Duff)

“Faith is not blindness to reality—it is an anchor when our emotions cloak the truth. Faith is our tool to overcome our fear.” (Lara Craft)

“Love is about giving. Are you willing to fulfill someone’s needs, sacrificing your own for another? Have you kept your word? Your promises? Because if not, it wasn’t love.” (Stephen Labossiere)

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my love does not involve judgment, decision, and action?” (Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving)

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” (James Baldwin)

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice…Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.” (Erich Fromm)

“Love is a warrior energy. It is a fire of conviction and passion and focus.” (Pam Gregory)

“Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” (James Baldwin)

“Everyone is mis-representing themselves and there’s no substance to back it up. Everything is fake. We’re just an empty shell. Power that looks like power, love that looks like love, but there’s nothing to back it up. This is the quintessential issue of our times.” (Adrienne Elise)

“Most people want relief, not a cure.” (Prince Ea)

“The biggest coward is a man who awakens the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.” (Bob Marley)

“Because of the increase of wickedness in the world, the love of most will grow cold.” (Matthew 24)

“I wandered farther away from you, and you let me.” (The Confessions of St. Augustine, Chapter 2, Sixteenth Year)