Religion Quotes by Saint Augustine

Doubt is but another element of faith.

— Saint Augustine

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

— Saint Augustine

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

— Saint Augustine

Understanding is the reward of faith.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Understanding is the wages of faith.

— Saint Augustine

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

— Saint Augustine

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

— Saint Augustine

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith…

— Saint Augustine

Our progress in holiness exactly corresponds to our progress in the spirit of prayer: he who prays well lives well.

— Saint Augustine

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein…

— Saint Augustine

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

— Saint Augustine

“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.”

— Saint Augustine

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

— Saint Augustine

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

— Saint Augustine

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about…

— Saint Augustine

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the…

— Saint Augustine

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds…

— Saint Augustine

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is…

— Saint Augustine

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to…

— Saint Augustine

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion…

— Saint Augustine

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and…

— Saint Augustine

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is…

— Saint Augustine

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained;…

— Saint Augustine

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic…

— Saint Augustine

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have…

— Saint Augustine

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the…

— Saint Augustine

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives…

— Saint Augustine

Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent.…

— Saint Augustine

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable,…

— Saint Augustine

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout…

— Saint Augustine

God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road…

— Saint Augustine

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

— Saint Augustine

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

— Saint Augustine

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds…

— Saint Augustine

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into…

— Saint Augustine

In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and…

— Saint Augustine

That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not…

— Saint Augustine