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Faith Sayings by Saint Augustine
- Doubt is but another element of faith.
- God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
- Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If…
- We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into…
- God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
- Every infinity... is made finite to God.
- In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways…
- There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither love nor hope without faith.
- To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
- There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and…
- You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted…
- Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such…
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- 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