When we choose to sin, what we want is to get some good or get rid of something bad. The lie is in this, that what is done for our good ends in something bad, or what is done to make things better ends by making them worse.
Saint Augustine
When We Choose
Topic: Overcoming Adversity
“When we choose to sin, what we want is to get some good or get rid of something bad. The lie is in this, that what is done for our good ends in something bad, or what is done to make things better ends by making them worse. Why this paradox, except that the happiness of man can come not from himself but only from God, and that to live according to oneself is to sin, and to sin is to lose God?”
Saint Augustine
Christianity
City of God
Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture II. Universal Peace Federation, 2011, p. 269 [Saint Augustine, City of God 14.4].
Saint Augustine
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Saint Augustine, City of God 14.4