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 wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.Saint Augustine
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
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Attained,
Bathed,
Contradictory,
Experience,
Extracting,
Find,
Flash,
Glance,
Hurried,
Itself,
light,
Might,
Mind,
Out,
Sensuous,
Throng,
Thus,
Vision,
Wherein,
Which,
Withdrew
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