Augustine of Hippo quotes

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. (Augustine of Hippo)
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.
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Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary.
Augustine of Hippo
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
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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.
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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
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Augustine of Hippo
Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned.
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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Augustine of Hippo
Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence.... (Augustine of Hippo)
Make friends with angels.
Augustine of Hippo
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
Augustine of Hippo
Wonderful is the depth of Thy oracles, whose surface is before us, inviting the little ones; and yet wonderful is the depth, O my God, wonderful is the depth. It is awe to look into it; and awe of honour, and a tremor of love. The enemies thereof I hate vehemently. Oh, if Thou wouldest slay them with Thy two-edged sword, that they be not its enemies! For thus do I love, that they should be slain unto themselves that they may live unto Thee.
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We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.
Augustine of Hippo
To seek the highest good is to live well.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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If thou lovest the Head, thou lovest also the members; if thou lovest not the members, neither dost thou love the Head.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.
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I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write. (Augustine of Hippo)
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
Augustine of Hippo
You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine of Hippo