"We...sin not because we want what is evil,……" — Scott Hahn

"We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough."

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13 Quotes by Scott Hahn

Scott Hahn has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less…
Down through the centuries, the Church has carefully preserved, protected, and defended its Marian teachings, because to give them up…
Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually…
God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.
I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.
A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery…
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome…
Love is something worth suffering for...
At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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