“SIN is neither something concocted by a ‘vengeful’ God, and nor was it maliciously devised to serve as a leash or a horse’s bridle by some kind of moralistic institution. No: ‘To sin is nothing else but to hang back from the good that belongs to one by nature.’…

… Because sin always takes place by going against the natural [naturhaften] impulse of the sinner himself, whoever does wrong can never therefore be completely at one with himself. Even the torments of the damned arise, in the final analysis, from a dichotomy inside the person: the pain of being cut off from what the sinner continues to will and to love by virtue of his very nature.”

— The Concept of Sin, Josef Pieper

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