Augustine On Grace Quotes

#1. 432In the end, grace may prove irresistible, but love can never be forced. Augustine knew this.

James Wetzel

#2. 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.

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

John Sterling

#4. Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Slash

#6. There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. To confess, then, is to praise and glorify God; it is an exercise in self-knowledge and true humility in the atmosphere of grace and reconciliation.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

David Heyman

#9. Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Philip Yancey

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

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

#12. Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

#14. For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.

Augustine Of Hippo

#15. I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Shelby Foote

#16. It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

Donald Johanson

#17. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

John Calvin

#18. 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.

Augustine Of Hippo

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

Saint Augustine

#22. Augustine of Hippo used to say that, but for God's grace, he should have been capable of committing any crime; and it is when we feel this sincerely, that we are most likely to be really improving, and best able to give assistance to others without moral loss to ourselves.

Henry Parry Liddon

#23. Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

Augustine Of Hippo

#24. Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.

Reese Witherspoon

#25. For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy.

Augustine Of Hippo

#26. When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.

Louie Anderson

#27. For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.

Saint Augustine

#28. Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.

Charles Barkley

#29. If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential relationship to him. It is His freely made choice to inaugurate and sustain loving relationships, and our choice to reciprocate, that are at the core of our relationship to the Divine.

Terryl L. Givens

#30. The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Saint Augustine

#31. it is grace that makes us fulfil the law, and causes nature to be liberated from the dominion of sin.

Augustine Of Hippo

#32. 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.

Augustine Of Hippo

#33. Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

David Cronenberg