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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Saint Augustine
Faith, God, Falling In Love

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual
"Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

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.

Saint Augustine
God, Faith, Believe

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Spiritual, Prayer
"Is It Okay to Pray for Material Things?" by Rick Hamlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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 as we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine
Motivational, Faith, Time
"Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 80:8),

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Religious

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Believe, Catholic
Saint Augustine, John W. Rettig (1993). “Tractates on the Gospel of John 28–54 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 88)”, p.18, CUA Press

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Speaks Out

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine
Love, Faith, God

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 a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Men, Support

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Philosophical, Catholic

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Life, Faith
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Men

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 denial of God.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Self, Two

Understanding is the wages of faith.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Understanding, Wages

Doubt is but another element of faith.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Doubt, Elements

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Draws

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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 wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Wine, Water

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 the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Christian, Inspiration

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Sorrow

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

Saint Augustine
Faith

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."

Saint Augustine
Faith, Christian, Inspiration

Singing is a lover's thing.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Singing

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 and a Life to live by.

Saint Augustine
Faith, Inspiration, Unity

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