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 AUGUSTINESymbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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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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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
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Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord!
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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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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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