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Believe Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
- If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
- Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have…
- For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
- On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what…
- Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
- I believe in order to understand
- I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
- Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it…
- Believe that you may understand,
- If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
- ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even…
- Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those…
- Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we…
- Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
- Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson