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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

We speak, but it is God who teaches.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God One Liner Speak Teaching
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

God Lord
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
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Atheist Deny Existence God
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Goodness Holy Lord Need
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Happiness Heart Pleasure Treasure
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beauty Growth Love Soul
There is no possible source of evil except good.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Evil Goodness Possible Source
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Body Die Forever Future Live Soul Take Care
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith Politics
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Goodness Live Time
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.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Beware Danger Devil Existence Hell Mathematics
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Believe Faith Reward
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Glory God Love Sake
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Blood Carry Dwell Soul Spirit
In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE

Dazzle Flory Inspirational Wound

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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