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Faith 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.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
- 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…
- God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
- I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with…
- Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
- It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;…
- 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…
- What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to…
- If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
- Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
- Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.
- Singing is a lover's thing.
- The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but…
- Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
- When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
- O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in…
- He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it…
- Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine