sinfulness

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Augustine sees this conflict as one between two rival wills, one that wills the good and one that desires sinfulness.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

That’s David Brooks’s point: We can’t truly cross the divide unless there’s a societywide and soul-deep acceptance of the sinfulness that has caused and perpetuated that divide.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2019

But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017

That understanding of man’s ever-present sinfulness would steel him against hardship and make him vigilant against threats to Jewry around the world.

From Time • Sep. 30, 2016

Fighting, definition, 1428; kinds, 1429; sinfulness, 1430; causes, 1431; hatred as cause of fighting, 1432; frequent occasions, 1433; evil consequences, 1434.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome