More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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?
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
