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
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
Saint Augustine
Image
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint Augustine
Image
The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
Saint Augustine
Image
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.
Saint Augustine
Image
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
Image
For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
Saint Augustine
Image
There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.
Saint Augustine
Image
You can live, provided you live that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
Saint Augustine
Image
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
Saint Augustine
Image
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
Saint Augustine
Image
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
Saint Augustine
Image
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
Saint Augustine
Image
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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
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.
Saint Augustine
Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
Saint Augustine
Image
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.
Saint Augustine
Image
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
Saint Augustine
Image
For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.
Saint Augustine
Image
Give us this day our daily bread, by this day we mean at this time, when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happine
Saint Augustine