More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
Love and say it with your life.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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?
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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.
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
