Quote

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

Saint Augustine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saint Augustine
Autobiographer
Historian
Music Theorist
Philosopher
Poet
Preacher
Presbyter
Saint
Theologian
Writer
Treveris
Saint Augustine
Saint Austin
Augustine
St. Augoustinos
St. Augustine of Hippo
Aurelius Augustinus
Aurelius Augustine
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
St. Augustine
Augustinus
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Augustinus
Aurelius
Mean
Men
Love
Goaded
Guided
Fear
Stills
Still
Best

More quotes by Saint Augustine

Image
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
Saint Augustine
Image
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Image
If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.
Saint Augustine
Image
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
Saint Augustine
Image
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Saint Augustine
Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
Saint Augustine
Image
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
Saint Augustine
Image
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
Saint Augustine
Image
Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.
Saint Augustine
Image
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
Saint Augustine
Image
Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.
Saint Augustine
Image
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
Saint Augustine
Image
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
Saint Augustine
Image
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Saint Augustine
Image
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
Saint Augustine
Image
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself and believe much on the strength of weak females.
Saint Augustine
Image
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Saint Augustine
Image
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
Saint Augustine
Image
Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
Saint Augustine
Image
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
Saint Augustine