Saint Augustine Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

• Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'

  Saint Augustine

  Blessed, Heart, Men

• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

  "The City of God Against the Pagans (Book IV)". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

• Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  Brother, Believe, Trying

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Light, Corruption

  "Works". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Volume III. In Johannis Evang. Cap. I. Tr. V. Section XV, p. 140, 1922.

• The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Doe, Flesh

• It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

  Saint Augustine

  Grace, Liberty, Virtue

• Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

  Saint Augustine

  Sin, Virtue, Ends

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Advancement, Our Actions

• My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Father, Violence

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 351, 1895.

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