Saint Augustine Quotes

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.