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 AUGUSTINEHe who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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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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There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
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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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