Saint Augustine Prayer Quotations

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

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

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

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

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

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.

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!

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

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.