Truth is not private property.
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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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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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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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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God gives where he finds empty hands.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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