Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. – Saint Augustine

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. – Saint Augustine

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. – Saint Augustine

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Its always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say. – Theresa May

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Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? – Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it. – Brian Eno

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I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted. – Bryan Cranston

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