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There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. This seems, indeed, to be contradictory, that loftiness should debase and lowliness exalt. But pious humility enables us to submit to what is above us; and nothing is more exalted above us than God; and therefore humility, by making us subject to God, exalts us.--De Civ. Dei, xiv. sec. 13.
Augustine of Hippo — The Complete Works of Saint Augustine: The Confessions, On Grace and Free Will, The City of God, On
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The Complete Works of Saint Augustine: The Confessions, On Grace and Free Will, The City of God, On
The Complete Works of Saint Augustine: The Confessions, On Grace and Free Will, The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, Expositions on the Book Of Psalms, ...
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