Friday, March 2, 2012

Good Quotes from St. Augustine of Hippo

  • Love the sinner and hate the sin      
  • Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love      
  • To sing once is to pray twice      
  • Hear the other side      
  • To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation      
  • 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 the way they are      
  • The violence which assails good men to test them, to cleanse and purify them, effects in the wicked their condemnation, ruin, and annihilation      
  • Anger is a weed; hate is the tree      
  • He who created you without you will not justify you without you      
  • Singing is loving      
  • Charity is no substitute for justice withheld      
  • For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see      
  • God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering      
  • God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist      
  • God loves each of us as if there were only one of us      
  • God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails      
  • He who is filled with love is filled with God himself      
  • I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him      
  • Love is the beauty of the soul.      
  • Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature      
  • Patience is the companion of wisdom