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 AUGUSTINEHabit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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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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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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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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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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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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