Saint Augustine Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Spiritual, Prayer

  "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

• To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, God, Falling In Love

• 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

• Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

  Saint Augustine

  Motivational, Faith, Time

  "Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),

• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Wine, Water

• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Believe, Catholic

  Saint Augustine, John W. Rettig (1993). “Tractates on the Gospel of John 28–54 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 88)”, p.18, CUA Press

• If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Speaks Out

• He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Religious

• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Philosophical, Catholic

• God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith

• The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

• Doubt is but another element of faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Doubt, Elements

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Men, Support

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

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

• Every infinity... is made finite to God.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Hope

• There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Self, Two

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Hunger And Thirst, Odor

• Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Draws

• Singing is a lover's thing.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Singing

• Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

• Understanding is the wages of faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Understanding, Wages

• When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Sorrow

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