Quote #52
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
- Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doub…
- Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- 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.
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
- Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.