More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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.
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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.
