“ What man is he, who, weighing his own infirmity, dares to ascribe his purity and innocency to his own strength ”
Saint Augustine, Confessions (401). copy citation
| Author | Saint Augustine |
|---|---|
| Source | Confessions |
| Topic | purity strength |
| Date | 401 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by E. B. Pusey |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm |
Context
“for what might I not have done, who even loved a sin for its own sake? Yea, all I confess to have been forgiven me; both what evils I committed by my own wilfulness, and what by Thy guidance I committed not. What man is he, who, weighing his own infirmity, dares to ascribe his purity and innocency to his own strength; that so he should love Thee the less, as if he had less needed Thy mercy, whereby Thou remittest sins to those that turn to Thee? For whosoever, called by Thee, followed Thy voice, and avoided those things which he reads me recalling and confessing of myself, let him not scorn me, who being sick, was cured by that Physician, through whose aid it was that he was not, or rather was less, sick:”
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