"But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in Him but in myself and His other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error."

"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

"What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called 'liberal arts' in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I c…"

"The things we love and desire are not ours to hold. Love turns false and dangerous when we assert ourselves as the masters of our universe. Our original sin, in Augustine's view, is the human conditio…"

"If Adam and Eve had not sinned, God might have created children for them without the need of intercourse."