Augustine of Hippo quotes

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.
- Augustine of Hippo

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
- Augustine of Hippo

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.
- Augustine of Hippo

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love… I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
- Augustine of Hippo

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
- Augustine of Hippo

The measure of love is to love without measure.
- Augustine of Hippo

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
- Augustine of Hippo

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Augustine of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
- Augustine of Hippo

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
- Augustine of Hippo

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
- Augustine of Hippo

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- 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.
- Augustine of Hippo

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Augustine of Hippo

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
- Augustine of Hippo

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Augustine of Hippo

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
- Augustine of Hippo

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
- Augustine of Hippo

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
- Augustine of Hippo

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

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

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- Augustine of Hippo

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
- Augustine of Hippo

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
- Augustine of Hippo

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
- Augustine of Hippo