Feet Quote by Saint Augustine Download Open image “If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.” — Saint Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Feet Higher Ifs Ladders Vices
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“O God, who is ever at work and ever at rest. May I be ever at work and ever at rest.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins. — J. R. Celski Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image