Saint Augustine Quotes

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16).

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Give up pride for good during the holidays. This is where I've been especially stubborn. As I walk more and more in this path of Christianity, I see that letting my guard down and admitting that I don't want to be alone is far better than dealing with me, myself and I, who always seem to want to keep up appearances.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I, for one, believe that partisanship should have nothing to do with the actions of Christ. You're either Christlike, or you're not.

Christian life means sacrifice.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.