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More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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.
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.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
