Quote #96
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Augustine of Hippo
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain
- There is no possible source of evil except good.
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
- The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and w…