Saint Augustine Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

  Saint Augustine

  Praise, Duty, Ought

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 207-208, 1922.

• For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Self, Slave

  Saint Augustine (2010). “The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)”, p.290, CUA Press

• Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

  Saint Augustine

  Joy, Forever, Soul

• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Peace, Heart

• If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Soul, Body

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.10514, Aeterna Press

• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Writing, Understanding

• Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

  Saint Augustine

  Honor, Worship, Praise

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.21

• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

• Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Delight, Praise

  "Confessions". Book by Saint Augustine (Book 1), www.huffingtonpost.com. 397-400 AD.

• A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Regret, Heart, Sadness

• Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?

  Saint Augustine

  Majesty, Praise, Lord

  Saint Augustine (2003). “Confessions”, p.21, Penguin UK

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