Hippo Quotes

• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Christian Inspirational, Literature

  69 Copy quote

• God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Prayer, Procrastination

  67 Copy quote

• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

  Derek Jarman

  Christian, Men, Epidemics

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Believe

  135 Copy quote

• Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Catholic, Special

  65 Copy quote

• Believe that you may understand.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, May

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 38)”, p.141, CUA Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian Inspirational, Religion, Christianity

  173 Copy quote
• 

  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.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

  311 Copy quote

  Show source

• For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

  29 Copy quote

• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

  Carl Sandburg

  Eagles, Want, Mud

  115 Copy quote

• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

  Saint Augustine

  People, Victory, Conqueror

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.139, Catholic Way Publishing

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Men, Perfection

  17 Copy quote

• I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

  Zahi Hawass

  Mean, Found, Crocodiles

  "The king of the pharaohs" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2003.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

  Saint Augustine

  Horse, Philosophical, Grace

  "De Libero Arbitrio" by Saint Augustine, (388 - 395).

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

  Saint Augustine

  Friendship, Long, Missing

  15 Copy quote

• I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Beauty, Ancient

  Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, Penguin UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Eulogy, Doe

  14 Copy quote

• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Desire, Longing

  29 Copy quote

• I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Philosophical, Lord

  8 Copy quote

• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Sensual, Mind

  12 Copy quote

• I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

  Saint Augustine

  World, Evolution, Creation

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.119, Open Road Media

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  "Mathematics in Western Culture". Book by Morris Kline, 1953.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

  Saint Augustine

  Unity, Be Patient, Faithfulness

  "Footprints in Time: Fulfilling God's Destiny for Your Life". Book by Jeff O'Leary, p. 223, 2006.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Freedom, Philosophical

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiveness, Sin, Remission

  28 Copy quote