Thursday, September 8, 2011

QUOTATION: Sin

Pride inflates man; envy consumes him; avarice makes him restless; anger rekindles his passions; gluttony makes him ill; comfort destroys him; lies imprison him; murder defiles him... the very pleasures of sin become instruments of punishment in the hands of God.

--Pope Innocent III, On the Misery of Human Condition, c. 1204