“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
I, 7
Confessions (c. 397)
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Aurelius Augustinus 183
early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430Related quotes
“The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.”
Northcote, 487
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Johnsoniana
“The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence.”
“Liar, liar, abaya on fire,” http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27264 WorldNetDaily.com, April 17, 2002.
2000s
“Charming people are only good at seducing innocent souls.”
Source: NOS4A2
As quoted in Quotable Saints (2003) by Ronda Chervin, p. 79
The Coloured Lands (1938)