Saint Augustine Quotes About Faith

We have collected for you the TOP of Saint Augustine's best quotes about Faith! Here are collected all the quotes about Faith starting from the birthday of the Saint – November 13, 354! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 27 sayings of Saint Augustine about Faith. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Understanding is the wages of faith.

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

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

    "Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.
  • To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

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

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

  • Doubt is but another element of faith.

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

  • Singing is a lover's thing.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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."

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    "Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),
  • He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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