Christian humility Quote by Saint Augustine Download Open image “Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.” — Saint Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christian humility Clouds Descending Hippo Humbleness Humility Humility and leadership Humility leadership Leadership by famous leaders Sin and love Towers Wish
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 Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan on erecting a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you think you are descending, you are climbing, but you do not know it. When you think you are climbing, in reality you… — Zhu Xiao-Mei Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. — Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow Copy Share Image
If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility. — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“This realization is much like Donald Miller's awakening after a day of protesting President Bush: "More than my questions about the efficacy of social… — Dennis Okholm Copy Share Image
