More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
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.
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.
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?
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
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.
