More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Love and say it with your life.
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.
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
