Saint Augustine Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• 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

• 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).

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

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Speaks Out

• 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

• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Men, Arrogance

• 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

• 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

• O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Unity

• Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

• 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

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