Saint Augustine Quotes

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

… the truth in the power of the wish

I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me, which is a very egotistical approach to your faith. I just wanted somebody to pay attention to me.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

I've always said prayers.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

I'm a God-fearing man.

I really believe in prayer.

Our family was just really passionate about Jesus.

I think it's hard to live without some sort of faith.

I pray every day.