Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt’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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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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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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Truth is not private property.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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