Quote by Saint Augustine of Hippo

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be fors

Summary

This quote suggests that refraining from committing sinful actions when one is no longer capable of doing so is not a virtue. Rather, it implies that no longer being able to sin is a result of being abandoned or forsaken by the opportunity to do wrong, rather than a deliberate choice to abandon sin. Therefore, true virtue lies in actively choosing to abstain from sin even when one still has the ability to commit it.

Topics

By Saint Augustine of Hippo

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Honor lies in honest toil.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vig

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon on

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that make

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science i

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know

I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.

Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orat

Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down o

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with

I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.