Quote

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

Saint Augustine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saint Augustine
Autobiographer
Historian
Music Theorist
Philosopher
Poet
Preacher
Presbyter
Saint
Theologian
Writer
Treveris
Saint Augustine
Saint Austin
Augustine
St. Augoustinos
St. Augustine of Hippo
Aurelius Augustinus
Aurelius Augustine
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
St. Augustine
Augustinus
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Augustinus
Aurelius
Second
Asks
Religion
Firsts
Therein
First
Reply
Thing
Third
Thirds
Humility

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
Saint Augustine
Image
Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
Saint Augustine
Image
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Saint Augustine
Image
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
Saint Augustine
Image
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Saint Augustine
Image
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Saint Augustine
Image
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine
Image
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
Saint Augustine
Image
Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
Saint Augustine
Image
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
Saint Augustine
Image
Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was in many and varied ways announced beforehand in the sacrifices of the Old Testament pertains to this one sacrifice which is revealed in the New Testament.
Saint Augustine
Image
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
Image
Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
Saint Augustine
Image
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
Saint Augustine
Image
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
Saint Augustine
Image
That your enemies have been created is God's doing that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them! You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.
Saint Augustine
Image
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
Saint Augustine
Image
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
Saint Augustine
Image
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
Saint Augustine
Image
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine