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Saint Augustine Quotes about Humility

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Angel, Pride
"Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Giving, Effort

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Clouds, Wish

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Effort, Doe

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Advancement, Our Actions

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Saint Augustine
Prayer, Humility, Baptism
"Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Pride, Hands

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Pride, Sin

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Thinking, Design
"Sermon 19:2 on the New Testament". "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series". Book edited by Philip Schaff, translated by R.G. MacMullen, Volume 6, www.newadvent.org.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine
Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Foundation, Fabric
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 330, 1895.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Merit, Sufficiency

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Pride, Childhood
Saint Augustine (1847). “Expositions on the Book of Psalms”, p.563, Lulu.com

No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility

Saint Augustine
Humility, Heaven, Kingdoms

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

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Firsts, Christianity

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

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".

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Thinking, Wish

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

Saint Augustine
Christian, Humility, Cities
Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons III/11”, p.286

You cannot attain to charity except through humility.

Saint Augustine
Humility, Charity

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
Humility, Firsts, Should

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