More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.
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?
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
