More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
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.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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 no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
Love and say it with your life.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
