We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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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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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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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