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Light Quotes by Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
- And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and…
- Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to…
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
- All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
- Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
- Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books…
- Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches…
- For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will…
- In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
- I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
- No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains…
- 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…
- Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst,…
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- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people… — Joel Osteen