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.


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The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For wher...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is s...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long cours...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first o...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by other...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
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 OF HIPPO
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in e...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be goo...
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Homines sunt voluntates
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO. - THE CITY OF GOD - XIV
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
AUGUSTINE
The world is a great big book, of which those who never travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The verdict of the world is conclusive.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
He who labours, prays.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I alr...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
There is no possible source of evil except good.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not po...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Hear the other side.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of h...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
God is best known in not knowing him.
SAINT AUGUSTINE
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of se...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
SAINT AUGUSTINE