Augustine of Hippo on Sin & Temptation
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful.
4 quotations from Augustine of Hippo on Sin & Temptation, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from. Follow any of them into the full text — free, and without an account.
Confessions 1
To Thy grace I ascribe it, and to Thy mercy, that Thou hast melted away my sins as it were ice.
The Enchiridion 3
To me, however, it seems certain that every lie is a sin, though it makes a great difference with what intention and on what subject one lies.
As, then, the soul even now finds it impossible to desire unhappiness, so in future it shall be wholly impossible for it to desire sin.
After the fall, however, a more abundant exercise of God’s mercy was required, because the will itself had to be freed from the bondage in which it was held by sin and death.