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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Saint Augustine
Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Saint Augustine
Art, Catholic, Empty
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4272, Aeterna Press

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Taken, Sleep
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10392, Aeterna Press

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Saint Augustine
Hell, Made, Inquisitive

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Saint Augustine
Truth, Hippo
Saint Augustine, F. J. Sheed (2007). “Confessions (Second Edition)”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

Saint Augustine
Christian, May, Lord

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.

Saint Augustine
Beautiful, May, Makers

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

Saint Augustine
Sincere, Lord, Steadfast

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
Dying, Use, Might

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Firsts, Christianity

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.

Saint Augustine
Spiritual, Prayer, Light

Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

Saint Augustine
Mother, Teacher, Stars

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Saint Augustine
Friendship, Long, Missing

Love and do as you will.

Saint Augustine
Love

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

Saint Augustine

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.

Saint Augustine
Fall, Humility, Order

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Saint Augustine
Vigor, May, Sin

"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 happiness.

Saint Augustine
Mean, Names, Giving

O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.

Saint Augustine
Night, Sight, Rays

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Saint Augustine
Doe, Want, Hearing
Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.202, OUP Oxford

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational, Determination, Littles

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

Saint Augustine
Ignorant, Remember, Forget
SAINT AUGUSTINE (1952). “THE CONFESSIONS THE CITY OF GOD ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE”

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Saint Augustine
Humble, Humility, Heart
"The Confessions".

Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

Saint Augustine
Love, Peace, Heart

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Saint Augustine
Vices, Ladders, Ifs
'Sermons' bk. 3 'De Ascensione'

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