Saint Augustine Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Grace, Sin

• Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

  Saint Augustine

  Real, Accomplishment, Grace

• I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Grace, Free Will

• "Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

  Saint Augustine

  Order, Grace, Done

  "A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter".

• It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

  Saint Augustine

  Humble, Grace, Proud

• Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Soul, Grace

• 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

• Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

  Saint Augustine

  Horse, Philosophical, Grace

  "De Libero Arbitrio" by Saint Augustine, (388 - 395).

• Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

  Saint Augustine

  Grace, Good Work, Very Good

• 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

• What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

  Saint Augustine

  Grace, Ask Me, Knows

• Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

  "'Contra Julianum' ('Against Julian')". Book by Augustine. Book II, Chapter 8, 22,

• I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.

  Saint Augustine

  Old Habits, Evil, Grace

  Sermons 180:10:1,

• It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Water, Parent

• What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, People, Grace

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.478, CUA Press

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin