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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.

Saint Augustine

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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Consent Creation God Help Save
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
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Church Father God Mother
The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Eternity Gain Life Merit Positive Purpose
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
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Alone Discover Reason Truth Weak
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Friendship Missing Want
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Glory God Love Sake
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Invisible Powerful Reality Sign Symbol Visible
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Glory God Love Sake
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Complete Easy Moderation Perfection
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Decision Earthquake Errupt Love Madness Temporary
Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beauty Love One Liner Soul
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Fashion Hell One Liner
If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Correct Goodness Growth Love Pardon Root Silence Speak

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