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.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.
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.
