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.
SAINT AUGUSTINEWe made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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 are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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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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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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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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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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