Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
Go in where you will, God sees you; light your lamp, God sees you; quench its light, God sees you. Fear God who ever beholds you. If you will sin, seek a place where God cannot see you, then do what you will.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Discipleship, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Prayer (how), Quote Author
Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Augustine (354-430), Page: Quotes, Prayer (why), Quote Author, Quote Topic
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 (354-430)