Divine grace Quote by Augustine of Hippo Download Open image ““Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.”” — Augustine of Hippo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Divine grace Grace of god Humility Nature of man Pride
“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.” — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you’ll learn… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.” — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith seeks, understanding finds. This is why the prophet says, ‘Unless you believe, you will not understand” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Run to and fro everywhere, holy fires, beautiful fires; for you are the light of the world, nor are you put under a bushel.… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Let Him do what pleases Him; let Him disclose Himself when it pleases Him! I now commit myself wholly to His care and clemency.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“and even now we labor in our residual gloom, until in your only Son we become your righteousness; for that righteousness is like God's… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of the faith is to see what we believe.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The essential mark of maturity in Christians—as in peach trees—is generativity. Mature faith bears fruit. Mature Christians are branches on which God’s love is… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Reason. Lady Love, I ask yet one more question: why does this book say that this Soul has everything and yet has nothing? Love.… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and why the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Divine grace is freely given, but God will not force us to receive it. It takes constant effort on our part to get out… — Rob Dreher Copy Share Image
“You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the… — Lailah GiftyAkita Copy Share Image
![“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]” quote by Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c2/augustine-of-hippo-2589_change_time-takes-no-holiday-it-does-not-roll-i_22609.jpg)
