“The evil in me was foul, but I loved it. I loved my own perdition and my own faults, not the things for which I committed wrong, but the wrong itself. My soul was vicious and broke away from your safe keeping to seek its own destruction, looking for no profit in disgrace but only for disgrace itself.”
More from Augustine of Hippo
“My heart grew sombre with grief, and wherever I looked I saw only death. My own country…”
“If babies are innocent, it is not for lack of will to do harm, but for lack of strength.”
“I did not know that evil is nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.”
“No one can lose you, my God, unless he forsakes you. And if he forsakes you, where is he…”