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More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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.
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.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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.
