More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
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.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
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.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.