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Saint Augustine Quotes about Prayer

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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 not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which

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 not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Heart, Desire

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.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Saint Augustine

Christian, Prayer, Procrastination

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Praying

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

Saint Augustine

Love, Prayer, Light

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.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Humility, Baptism

"Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Enemy, Saint

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Saint Augustine

Love, Prayer, Whole

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Knees, Straws

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.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, May, Lord

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 light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

Spiritual, Prayer, Light

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

Saint Augustine

Peace, Prayer, Lord

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Saint Augustine

Art, Prayer, Desire

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!

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Practice, Soul

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

"'Contra Julianum' ('Against Julian')". Book by Augustine. Book II, Chapter 8, 22,

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Littles

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 464, 1895.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Failing, Ifs

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.

Saint Augustine

Prayer, Desire, Longing

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