--- title: "7 Seeking Quotes By Saint Augustine" description: "7 Seeking quotes by Saint Augustine. Plus more from Saint Augustine and more Seeking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/saint-augustine-328_believe_whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so_676816.png" --- > [Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so-that-he-may-believe-is/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/saint-augustine-328_believe_whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so_676816.png) > [Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/why-persist-in-walking-difficult-and-toilsome-paths-there-is-no/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/saint-augustine-328_catholic_why-persist-in-walking-difficult-and-toi_1049768.png) > [I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/i-did-not-find-you-outside-o-lord-because-i-made-the-mistake-of/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/saint-augustine-328_divine_i-did-not-find-you-outside-o-lord-becaus_1107537.png) > [I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/i-found-thee-not-o-lord-without-because-i-erred-in-seeking-thee/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/saint-augustine-328_found_i-found-thee-not-o-lord-without-because_1618636.png) > [Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/father-i-am-seeking-i-am-hesitant-and-uncertain-but-will-you-o-god/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/saint-augustine-328_catholicism_father-i-am-seeking-i-am-hesitant-and-un_1954152.png) > [What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/what-art-thou-then-my-god-what-but-the-lord-god-for-who-is-lord-but-2/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/saint-augustine-328_age_what-art-thou-then-my-god-what-but-the-l_2473360.jpg) > [I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/i-became-evil-for-no-reason-i-had-no-motive-for-my-wickedness-except/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/saint-augustine-328_depraved_i-became-evil-for-no-reason-i-had-no-mot_2951102.png) ## Other authors on Seeking ## More by Saint Augustine > [Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/lust-indulged-became-habit-and-habit-unresisted-became-necessity/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [The playthings of our elders are called business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-playthings-of-our-elders-are-called-business/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/do-what-you-can-and-pray-for-what-you-cannot-yet-do/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/for-i-did-not-know-that-the-soul-needs-to-be-enlightened-by-light/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/my-mother-spoke-of-christ-to-my-father-by-her-feminine-and-childlike/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/wicked-sons-do-not-have-the-holy-ghost-in-the-same-way-as-do-beloved/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/to-wisdom-belongs-the-intellectual-apprehension-of-things-eternal-to/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/it-is-this-one-spirit-who-makes-it-possible-for-an-infant-to-be/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/god-has-no-need-of-your-money-but-the-poor-have-you-give-it-to-the/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/nothing-conquers-except-truth-and-the-victory-of-truth-is-love/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/o-god-who-is-ever-at-work-and-ever-at-rest-may-i-be-ever-at-work-and/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/our-lord-reserved-to-himself-certain-things-which-he-would-do-in-due/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/give-me-chastity-and-continence-but-not-yet/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/nothing-therefore-happens-unless-the-omnipotent-wills-it-to-happen-he/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) > [The reward of patience Is patience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/the-reward-of-patience-is-patience/) [Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/seeking/saint-augustine/#itemlist", "name": "7 Seeking Quotes By Saint Augustine", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint Augustine" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so-that-he-may-believe-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/saint-augustine-328_believe_whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so_676816.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/saint-augustine-328_believe_whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so_676816.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a33/saint-augustine-328_believe_whoever-is-still-seeking-for-miracles-so_676816.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while…” — Saint Augustine", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? 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