More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
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?
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
