Believe Quotes by Saint Augustine

Believe that you may understand,

— Saint Augustine

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

— Saint Augustine

I believe in order to understand

— Saint Augustine

Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.

— 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

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

— Saint Augustine

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

— Saint Augustine

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

— Saint Augustine

“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.”

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

— Saint Augustine

Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world…

— Saint Augustine

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will…

— Saint Augustine

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical…

— Saint Augustine

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I…

— 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

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

— Saint Augustine

On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what…

— Saint Augustine

...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as…

— Saint Augustine

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe,…

— Saint Augustine

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

— Saint Augustine

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it…

— Saint Augustine

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

— Saint Augustine

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

— Saint Augustine