I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest sub — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest sub — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest sub — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest sub — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest sub — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter.

— Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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