More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
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.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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.
