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 AUGUSTINEUnhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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Truth is not private property.
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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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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.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
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Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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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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.
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Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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To sing is to pray twice.
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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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