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1 Int | acknowledgment, before God, of the truth one knows about oneself -
2 Int | acknowledge, to God, the truth one knows about God. To
3 Int, 1 | testimony to the Christian truth.~For his framework, Augustine
4 Int, 1 | content to seek and find the truth in solitude. He must enlist
5 Int, 1 | seeing and applying the truth as given. He is never the
6 1, V | judgment with thee,18 who art truth itself; and I would not
7 1, VI | through them, though, in truth, it was not from them but
8 1, XI | have been far better, in truth. But how many and great
9 1, XIII | unto my soul, and let thy truth say to me: “Not so, not
10 1, XVIII | and plenteous in mercy and truth”34 as thou art. Wilt thou
11 1, XIX | learned to take pleasure in truth. I was averse to being deceived;
12 2, III | sight the brightness of thy truth, O my God; and my iniquity
13 2, V | O our Lord God, and thy truth and thy law. For these inferior
14 2, VI | more healthfully than thy truth, bright and beautiful above
15 3, VI | their heart was empty of truth. Still they cried, “Truth,
16 3, VI | truth. Still they cried, “Truth, Truth,” and were forever
17 3, VI | Still they cried, “Truth, Truth,” and were forever speaking
18 3, VI | thee - who truly art the Truth - but also about the basic
19 3, VI | when they were speaking truth concerning thy creatures,
20 3, VI | all things beautiful.~O Truth, Truth, how inwardly even
21 3, VI | things beautiful.~O Truth, Truth, how inwardly even then
22 3, VI | thine, but after thyself the Truth, “with whom is no variableness,
23 3, VI | because of my lack of the truth, even when I was seeking
24 3, VII | was retreating from the truth, I appeared to myself to
25 3, VIII | interest to obey him - and, in truth, it would be inimical if
26 4, V | learn from thee, who art Truth, and put the ear of my heart
27 4, IX | punishment? “Thy law is the truth”100 and thou art Truth.~
28 4, IX | the truth”100 and thou art Truth.~
29 4, XI | tired of deceit. Commit to truth whatever you have received
30 4, XI | you have received from the truth, and you will lose nothing.
31 4, XII | Behold, there he is, wherever truth is known. He is within the
32 4, XIV | sustained by the stability of truth! Just as the breezes of
33 4, XIV | is obscured to it and the truth not seen. And yet, there
34 4, XV | prevented me from seeing the truth. Still, the very power of
35 4, XV | Still, the very power of truth forced itself on my gaze,
36 4, XV | rational soul and the nature of truth and the highest good. But
37 4, XV | was to be partaker of the truth, since it is not itself
38 4, XV | not itself the essence of truth. “For thou wilt light my
39 4, XV | not created for me by thy truth but conceived by my own
40 4, XV | thy inward melody, O sweet Truth, pondering on “the beautiful
41 4, XV | of thee was falsity, not truth. It was a figment of my
42 4, XV | that thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wert a bright and vast
43 5 | solid demonstration of the truth of Manichean doctrine. He
44 5, II | own rough paths. For in truth they do not know that thou
45 5, III | charm of words from the truth of things, which I was eager
46 5, III | with true piety for the Truth, the Architect of Creation,
47 5, III | lies on thee who art the Truth, “changing the glory of
48 5, III | They exchanged thy truth for a lie, and worshiped
49 5, IV | 7. Yet, O Lord God of Truth, is any man pleasing to
50 5, VI | who is suspicious even of truth itself, if it is expressed
51 5, VI | there is no other teacher of truth, wherever truth shines forth.
52 5, VI | teacher of truth, wherever truth shines forth. Already I
53 5, VI | awaited this man, was in truth delighted with his action
54 5, IX | deserved, measured by the truth of thy rule? My mother knew
55 5, X | comprehending any certain truth, for, although I had not
56 5, X(143) | judgment, in all questions of truth, and would allow nothing
57 5, X | finding in thy Church the truth from which they had turned
58 5, XI | load for the air of thy truth, but I was not able to breathe
59 5, XII | such learning, O God, the truth and fullness of our positive
60 5, XIII | first as a teacher of the truth, for I had entirely despaired
61 6 | his fruitless search for truth.~
62 6, I | despaired of ever finding the truth.~By this time my mother
63 6, I | despair of ever finding the truth. But when I told her that
64 6, I | had not yet grasped the truth, I was rescued from falsehood.
65 6, II | stimulate her to hate the truth, as it does too many, both
66 6, III | rightly dividing the word of truth”154 among the people. And
67 6, IV | discovered that it taught the truth, but I now knew that it
68 6, IV | been directed toward thy truth, which always abides and
69 6, V | unaided reason to find out truth, and since, because of this,
70 6, X | give his assent. And the truth was that even if the judge
71 6, X | uttered by the mouth of Thy truth: “If, therefore, you have
72 6, X | most ardent search after truth and wisdom. He had left
73 6, XI | placed me, until the clear truth is discovered. But where
74 6, XI | solely to the search for truth. This life is unhappy, death
75 6, XVI | pleasures might be. Yet of a truth I loved my friends for their
76 6, I | avoided this error - and the truth on this point I rejoiced
77 6, IV | assumed henceforth as settled truth that the incorruptible must
78 6, V | before I discovered the truth. And still the faith of
79 6, VI | predictors, who lighted on the truth by making so many guesses.~
80 6, VI | should, in order to speak the truth, make contrary analyses,
81 6, VI | undertakes to pronounce the truth. But such pronouncements
82 6, IX | fashioned of gold, “changing the truth of God into a lie and worshiping
83 6, X | by it. He who knows the Truth knows that Light, and he
84 6, X | Love knows it, O Eternal Truth and True Love and Beloved
85 6, X | spider.204 And I said, “Is Truth, therefore, nothing, because
86 6, X | I am alive than that the Truth exists - the Truth which
87 6, X | that the Truth exists - the Truth which is “clearly seen,
88 6, XV | things in the hand of thy truth, and because all things
89 6, XVII | unchangeable and true eternity of truth above my changeable mind.~
90 6, XVIII | saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,”217 and mingling
91 6, XVIII | For thy Word, the eternal Truth, far exalted above even
92 6, XIX | because he was a form of the Truth, but also because of the
93 6, XIX | made flesh,” the Catholic truth can be distinguished from
94 6, XX | search for the incorporeal Truth, I saw how thy invisible
95 6, XXI | and I found that whatever truth I had read [in the Platonists]
96 6, XXI | which he remained not in thy truth. What shall “wretched man”
97 7, I | heard from the mouth of Truth that “there are eunuchs
98 7, II | and shamefaced toward the truth. Thus, suddenly and unexpectedly,
99 7, V | because my perception of the truth was uncertain. For now it
100 7, V | and I, convicted by the truth, had nothing at all to reply
101 7, VII | of vanity for uncertain truth. But behold now it is certain,
102 7, IX | though it is supported by the truth. And so there are two wills,
103 7, X | when they come to hold the truth and consent to the truth
104 7, X | truth and consent to the truth that thy apostle may say
105 7, X | must be converted to the truth, and no longer deny that
106 7, X | perplexities, because for truth’s sake it prefers this,
107 8, III | the flesh of thy Son, the Truth, was a phantom.273 Yet he
108 8, III | most earnest inquirer after truth. Not long after our conversion
109 8, IV | Paraclete, the Spirit of Truth.” Already he had sent him,
110 8, IV | phantoms which I once held for truth there was vanity and falsehood.
111 8, IV | shall withstand us when the truth of this saying that is written
112 8, VI | flowed into my ears; and the truth was poured forth into my
113 8, X | and in the presence of Truth (which thou art) - discussing
114 8, X | in some measure weigh the truth of so profound a mystery.~
115 8, X | forever with the food of truth, where life is that Wisdom
116 8, XII | occasion. By this balm of truth, I softened the anguish
117 8, XIII | declared by thy Son, the Truth, that “whosoever shall say
118 9, I | For see, “Thou desirest truth”320 and “he who does the
119 9, I | and “he who does the truth comes to the light.”321
120 9, III | myself whether I speak the truth, since no man knows what
121 9, III | them that I confess the truth, yet those whose ears love
122 9, VI | received from without with the truth within. For the truth says
123 9, VI | the truth within. For the truth says to me, “Neither heaven
124 9, XXIII | would rather rejoice in truth or in falsehood. They will
125 9, XXIII | hesitate to answer, “In truth,” than to say that they
126 9, XXIII | happy life is joy in the truth. Yet this is joy in thee,
127 9, XXIII | joy in thee, who art the Truth, O God my Light, “the health
128 9, XXIII | only happy one: joy in the truth is what all men wish. ~I
129 9, XXIII | they knew also what the truth is? For they love it, too,
130 9, XXIII | nothing else but joy in the truth, then certainly they also
131 9, XXIII | certainly they also love the truth. And yet they would not
132 9, XXIII | them. ~34. Why, then, does truth generate hatred, and why
133 9, XXIII | servant who preaches the truth come to be an enemy to them
134 9, XXIII | nothing else than joy in the truth - unless it be that truth
135 9, XXIII | truth - unless it be that truth is loved in such a way that
136 9, XXIII | her wish that to be the truth which they do love. Since
137 9, XXIII | Therefore, they hate the truth for the sake of whatever
138 9, XXIII | they love in place of the truth. They love truth when she
139 9, XXIII | of the truth. They love truth when she shines on them;
140 9, XXIII | wish to deceive, they love truth when she reveals herself
141 9, XXIII | itself is not hidden from the truth, but the truth is hidden
142 9, XXIII | from the truth, but the truth is hidden from it. Yet even
143 9, XXIII | still prefers to rejoice in truth rather than in known falsehoods.
144 9, XXIII | to rejoice in that single Truth through which all things
145 9, XXIV | thee. For where I found Truth, there found I my God, who
146 9, XXIV | found I my God, who is the Truth. From the time I learned
147 9, XXVI | Everywhere and at once, O Truth, thou guidest all who consult
148 9, XXXVI | made it to be so. And so in truth it was, though I knew it
149 9, XXXVI | split off our joy from thy truth and fix it on the deceits
150 9, XXXVII | praise, but more with the truth itself than with praise.
151 9, XXXVII | and fully confident in the truth, would prefer to be blamed
152 9, XXXVII | this respect?~62. Behold, O Truth, it is in thee that I see
153 9, XXXVII | myself, and do not keep the truth before thee in my heart
154 9, XL | thou not accompanied me, O Truth, teaching me both what to
155 9, XLI | thy eyes.”390 Thou art the Truth, who presidest over all
156 10, I | So also we pray - and yet Truth tells us, “Your Father knoweth
157 10, II | tells us so himself; the Truth tells us so.~
158 10, III | chambers of my thought, Truth itself - neither Hebrew,
159 10, III | would say, “He speaks the truth,” and I should be assured
160 10, III | of thine, “You speak the truth.”420 However, since I cannot
161 10, III | Moses, I beseech thee, O Truth, from whose fullness he
162 10, III | whose fullness he spoke truth; I beseech thee, my God,
163 10, III(420) | The final test of truth, for Augustine, is self-evidence
164 10, III(420) | and the final source of truth is the indwelling Logos.~
165 10, V | mind may consult with the Truth which presideth over it
166 10, VIII | be found in the eternal Truth, in which the good and only
167 10, VIII | teacheth us unless it be the Truth immutable? For even when
168 10, VIII | we are thereby led to the Truth immutable. There we learn
169 10, IX | thy Power, thy Wisdom, thy Truth: all wondrously speaking
170 10, XV | my Light, shall not thy truth make mockery of man even
171 10, XVII | XVII~ ~22. I am seeking the truth, O Father; I am not affirming
172 10, XXIII | seem to? Thou, O Light and Truth, wilt show me.~
173 10, XXVII | Give heed where the truth begins to dawn.447 Suppose
174 10, XXX | and fixed in thee, and thy truth will be my mold. And I shall
175 11 | mode of creation and the truth of Scripture. Augustine
176 11, I | fear to be deceived when truth promises?~
177 11, X | CHAPTER X~ ~10. O Truth, O Light of my heart, let
178 11, XV | these things are false which Truth tells me, with a loud voice
179 11, XVI | things are true that thy Truth has indicated to my mind.
180 11, XVIII | understand this aspect of the truth even though he did understand
181 11, XVIII | though he did understand the truth in a different meaning?486~
182 11, XVIII(486)| multiplicity of perspectives on truth which amounted to different
183 11, XVIII(486)| levels and interpretations of truth. This gave Augustine the
184 11, XX | Moses spoke in the spirit of truth - from all these truths,
185 11, XXII | when they were created. If Truth instructs us, why may we
186 11, XXIII | one disagreement about the truth of the things involved;
187 11, XXIII | with those who feed on thy truth in the bond of love. Let
188 11, XXIV | it to be certain in thy truth. For his thoughts might
189 11, XXV | property of all lovers of the truth.493 But I neither accept
190 11, XXV | held in awe, because thy truth is neither mine nor his
191 11, XXV | very own - that is, from truth to falsehood. For he who
192 11, XXV | God, best judge of all! O Truth itself, hear what I say
193 11, XXV | see it in the unchangeable truth itself, which is above our
194 11, XXV | clearly as the immutable Truth is seen? If Moses himself
195 11, XXVI | if, in the light of the Truth, some other man saw some
196 11, XXVII | various streams of clear truth, from which each one may
197 11, XXVII | himself that particular truth which he can about these
198 11, XXVII | these topics - this one that truth, that one another truth,
199 11, XXVII | truth, that one another truth, by the broader survey of
200 11, XXVIII | rejoice in the light of thy truth to whatever degree they
201 11, XXX | discord of true opinions let Truth itself bring concord, and
202 11, XXX | acknowledge to see and speak the truth in these words, love one
203 11, XXX | our God, O Fountain of Truth - as we will if we thirst
204 11, XXX | but for the Fountain of Truth. Indeed, let us so honor
205 11, XXX | minister both for the light of truth and to the increase of our
206 11, XXXI | should be still a third truth or a fourth one, and if
207 11, XXXI | if anyone should seek a truth quite different in those
208 11, XXXI | it so that, whatever of truth anyone might apprehend from
209 11, XXXI | fully and understood all the truth we have been able to find
210 11, XXXII | shall say at least what thy Truth wished to say to me through
211 12, XVIII | the capacity for joy. Let truth spring up out of the earth,
212 12, XVIII | is in the clear light of truth - as the light which is
213 12, XX | alien to the eternity of thy truth have called them forth,
214 12, XXII | behold and apprehend thy truth, that he does not need another
215 12, XXIV | What, then, shall I say, O Truth, O my Life: that it was
216 12, XXIV | symbol of its thirst for truth, and of the fact that reason
217 12, XXV | fear, for I will speak the truth, as thou inspirest me to
218 12, XXV | believe I can speak the truth by any other inspiration
219 12, XXV | thine, since thou art the Truth, and every man a liar.634
220 12, XXV | Therefore, if I am to speak the truth, I must speak of thy truth.~
221 12, XXV | truth, I must speak of thy truth.~Behold, thou hast given
222 12, XXVIII | Beautiful bodies express this truth; for a body which consists
223 12, XXIX | since thou art true, and thy truth doth set it forth? Why,
224 12, XXX | drop of sweetness from thy truth, and understood that there
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