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 AUGUSTINETruth is not private property.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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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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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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