Explore more quotes by Saint Augustine

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

God, Evil

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

Intelligence, Children, Creation

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

Nature, Miracles

"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

Cause, Martyr, Punishment

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

Life, Action, Class, Pain

"The purpose of all wars, is peace."

Peace, Purpose

"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."

Self-improvement, Vices

"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Anger, Love, Fear, Jealousy

"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

Soul, Heart, Feeling, Man

"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"

Belief, Deep, Man

Exlpore more Justice quotes

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Justice, God, Country, Sleep

"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Justice, Law

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Justice, Men, Law, Man, Will

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Justice, Conscience, End, Will

"Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Justice, Truth, Action

"It is right to give every man his due."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Justice, Man, Right

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Justice, Evil, Man

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Justice, Act, Order

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Justice, Law, Respect, Right

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Justice, May, Principles, President