Saint Augustine Quotes about Grace

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What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Saint Augustine

Heart, People, Grace

Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Saint Augustine

Order, Grace, Done

"A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter".

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Saint Augustine

Grace, Good Work, Very Good

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

Saint Augustine

Men, Grace, Free Will

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

Saint Augustine

Humble, Grace, Proud

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

Saint Augustine

Adversity, Soul, Grace

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Saint Augustine

Law, Grace, Sin

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

Saint Augustine

Real, Accomplishment, Grace

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

Grace, Ask Me, Knows

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Saint Augustine

Horse, Philosophical, Grace

"De Libero Arbitrio" by Saint Augustine, (388 - 395).

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

Saint Augustine

Old Habits, Evil, Grace

Sermons 180:10:1,