Faith Quotes by Saint Augustine

Doubt is but another element of faith.

— Saint Augustine

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Believe that you may understand,

— Saint Augustine

I believe in order to understand

— Saint Augustine

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

— Saint Augustine

Singing is a lover's thing.

— Saint Augustine

Understanding is the wages of faith.

— Saint Augustine

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

— 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

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

— Saint Augustine

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ…

— 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

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life…

— Saint Augustine

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you…

— Saint Augustine

Our life is a gymnasium of desire… When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that…

— 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

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it…

— Saint Augustine

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,…

— Saint Augustine

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith…

— Saint Augustine

Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be…

— Saint Augustine

Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also…

— Saint Augustine

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct…

— 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

Except he be willing, man cannot believe.

— Saint Augustine

Understanding is the reward of faith.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine