Emulate the tiny ant; be an ant of God. Listen to the word of God and hide it in your heart. Collect plenty of food during the happy days of your spiritual summers. You will then be able to endure the difficult days of temptations during the winters of your soul.
– Augustine –
354 – 430 AD
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
– Augustine –
There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee.
– Augustine –
One loving heart sets another on fire.
– Augustine –
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
– Augustine –
You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.
– Augustine –
Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
– Augustine –
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
– Augustine –
354 – 430 AD
In the Old Testament the New is concealed; in the New, the Old is revealed.
– Augustine –