More Quotes by Augustine of Hippo
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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.
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.
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.
