Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINEThe Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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Truth is not private property.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
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