More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
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.
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
