Augustine of Hippo Quotes

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

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?

Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.