WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
69 followers · 996 posts · Server zirk.usA quotation from Augustine of Hippo:
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When on all sides you showed me that your words were true, and I was overcome by your truth, I had no answer whatsoever to make, but only those slow and drowsy words, “Right away. Yes, right away.” “Let me be for a little while.” But “Right away — right away” was never right now, and “Let me be for a lit…
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https://wist.info/augustine-of-hippo/61990/
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WIST Quotations · @WISTquote
65 followers · 957 posts · Server zirk.usA quotation from Thomas a Kempis:
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The pack of this world was a kind of pleasant weight upon me, as happens in sleep, and the thoughts in which I meditated on you were like the efforts of someone who tries to get up but is so overcome with drowsiness that he sinks back again into sleep. Of course no one wants to sleep forever, and everyone in his senses wou…
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https://wist.info/thomas-a-kempis/61761/
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Nando161 · @nando161
249 followers · 7747 posts · Server kolektiva.social
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