Quotes from St. Augustine
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 the continuance of your prayer.
- St. Augustine
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
- St. Augustine
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 were Thy will.
- St. Augustine
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 of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
- St. Augustine
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
- St. Augustine
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
- St. Augustine
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
- St. Augustine
He that is jealous is not in love.
- St. Augustine
He that is not jealous is not in love.
- St. Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
- St. Augustine
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
- St. Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- St. Augustine