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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humility fabric foundation
The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
humility effort doe
...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
humility our-actions advancement
Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
humility pride sin
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
humility angel pride
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
humility thinking design
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.
humility giving effort
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
fall humility order
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
humility heaven kingdoms
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility
humility merit sufficiency
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
humility pride hands
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.
christian humility rome
In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.
humility firsts should
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
humility pride childhood
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.