Saint Augustine Quotes

Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live.

The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Light itself is a revelation.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

All our efforts must tend towards light.

Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

Truths kindle light for truths.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the word 'wisdom' is not used in that way. Here wisdom means Light, illumining Light, transforming Light. That which illumines our unlit consciousness is wisdom. That which transforms the finite consciousness into the infinite Consciousness is called wisdom.