More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
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.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Love and say it with your life.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
