Evil Quotes by Saint Augustine

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

— Saint Augustine

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

— Saint Augustine

Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

— Saint Augustine

The greatest evil is physical pain.

— Saint Augustine

There is no possible source of evil except good.

— Saint Augustine

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

— Saint Augustine

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of…

— Saint Augustine

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

— Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a…

— Saint Augustine

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

— Saint Augustine

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

— Saint Augustine

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil…

— Saint Augustine

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things,…

— Saint Augustine

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their…

— Saint Augustine

“The wicked make all God's good works serve evil purposes but the person of good will, to the contrary, makes the evil…

— Saint Augustine

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet…

— Saint Augustine

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be,…

— Saint Augustine

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the…

— Saint Augustine

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good…

— Saint Augustine

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces;…

— Saint Augustine

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against,…

— Saint Augustine

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved…

— Saint Augustine

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at…

— Saint Augustine

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is…

— Saint Augustine