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 AUGUSTINEThe good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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If you understood him, it would not be God.
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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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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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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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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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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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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