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Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Augustine
Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us. All these good things, and all our security, are rightly found only and completely in him.
