Saint Augustine Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Adversity, Son

• The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Grace, Sin

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiveness, Sin, Remission

• For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

  Saint Augustine

  Baptized In, Baptism, Fonts

• Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

  Saint Augustine

  Sin, Right Thing

• Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

  Saint Augustine

  Self Esteem, Lying, Believe

• There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Pride, Sin

• The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

  Saint Augustine

  Vices, Sin, Slave

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.599, Catholic Way Publishing

• Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

  Saint Augustine

  Past, Medicine, Suffering

• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Forgiveness, Hate

• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

  Saint Augustine

  Sweet, Devil, Poison

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

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Sins Not, Forsaken

• We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

  Saint Augustine

  Sin, Christ, Adore

• Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

  Saint Augustine

  Baptism, Church, Wickedness

• God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

  Saint Augustine

  Fighting, Temptation, Suffering

• Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

  Saint Augustine

  Sin, Virtue, Ends

• He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Thinking, Sin

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9900, Aeterna Press

• Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

  Saint Augustine

  Energy, Sin

• Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

  Saint Augustine

  Doubt, Sin, Rebirth

  "Sermons to the People". Book by Augustine of Hippo (Sermon 229E:2),

• The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

  Saint Augustine

  Eggs, Forgiving, Debtors

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.115

• Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.417, CUA Press

• Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Humility, Baptism

  "Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

• Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

  "'Contra Julianum' ('Against Julian')". Book by Augustine. Book II, Chapter 8, 22,

• If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
  shut out pardon.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Shut Up, Sin

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