More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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.
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.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
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.
