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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Saint Augustine

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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Rejection Truth Yourself
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Goodness Hands Receive Try
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Die Ending God Immortal Live Mortal
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Book Compose Growth Mature
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Comparison Cost Obey
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Lord Myself Teaching
Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Death Life Misery One Liner Uncertain
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Book Page Travel World
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Command Instant Meet Mind Obey Resistance
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Fashion Hell One Liner
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Creation Dependent Sin Sustain
Truth is not private property.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Justice One Liner Private Property Truth
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Glory God Love Sake
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Adversity Brave Cheer Endurance Love Moderate Prosperity Suffering
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Religious
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Money Need Poor Receive

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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