truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:42 pm

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:44 pm

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:45 pm

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:46 pm

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Saint Augustine

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:51 pm

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:52 pm

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Sun 31 December 2006 9:52 pm

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine