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Prayer Quotes by Saint Augustine
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is…
- He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
- Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
- Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
- O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it…
- What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course…
- Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
- God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible…
- There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive…
- You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
- Whole prayer is nothing but love.
- If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are…
- Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
- God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
- In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
- Our progress in holiness exactly corresponds to our progress in the spirit of prayer: he who prays well lives well.
More Prayer Quotes
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- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- 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
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that… — Arthur W. Pink
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila