Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of

We strive to be as virtuous as possible, but the truth is that any virtue can be malformed into a greater sin. The opposite is also true.

The conscious mind is awake only to falsehood, corruption and attachment. It gathers in the assets of sin and greed.

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.