Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, Saint Austin, Blessed Augustine, and the Doctor of Grace, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius, located in Numidia. He is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are The City of God and Confessions...
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prayer knees straws
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
christian prayer procrastination
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
prayer praying
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
faith spiritual prayer
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
prayer lord thee
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
prayer littles
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
prayer struggle fighting
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.
prayer desire longing
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.
spiritual prayer light
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.
prayer humility baptism
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized
prayer enemy saint
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
prayer failing ifs
If faith fails, prayer perishes.
art prayer desire
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
love prayer whole
Whole prayer is nothing but love.