Quote

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

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
First
Third
Thirds
Humility
Christianity
Second
Firsts

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Image
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
Saint Augustine
Image
Love and say it with your life.
Saint Augustine
Image
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
Saint Augustine
Image
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine
Image
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
Saint Augustine
Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
Saint Augustine
Image
The reward of patience Is patience.
Saint Augustine
Image
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.
Saint Augustine
Image
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
Saint Augustine
Image
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
Saint Augustine
Image
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Image
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
Saint Augustine
Image
If you understood him, it would not be God.
Saint Augustine
Image
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
Image
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
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
Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
Saint Augustine
Image
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
Saint Augustine
Image
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
Saint Augustine