Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
SAINT AUGUSTINEIt’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.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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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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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.
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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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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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The 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.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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