More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
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?
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
