More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
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.
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.
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.
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.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
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.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
