Saint Augustine Quotes About Prayer
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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
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You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
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Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.
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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
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He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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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.
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If faith fails, prayer perishes.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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Whole prayer is nothing but love.
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