‘He created them not that they might sin, but that they might add beauty to the whole, whether they willed to sin or not. [CCL 57:51]

‘Hence, it is clear that the full likeness to God will then be realised in this image of God when it shall receive the full vision of Him. With regard to the soul. We have proof that it is subject to change in time from the great variety of its loves, and from the Fall by which it became wretched and from the restoration by which it returns again to happiness’. trin. 4.2.4 [CCL 50:164]

‘But we must first consider the mind in itself before it is a partaker of God, and before his image is to be found in it. For we have said that, even though it has become impaired and disfigured by the loss of its participation in God, the mind remains nonetheless an image of God. For it is his image by the very fact that it is capable of him, and can be a partaker of him; and it cannot be so great a good except that it is his image.’ 50 cf. mor. 2.4.6 [PL 32:1347]

‘God, therefore, having been made a just man, intercedes for sinful man. For there is no harmony between the sinner and the just man, but between man and man. Accordingly, by uniting the likeness of His humanity with us, He has taken away the unlikeness of our iniquity and having been made a sharer [partaker] of our mortality, he has made us a sharer [partaker] of His divinity’.

‘Because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. And so all of us, who were born from him after sin, first bear the animal man, until we attain the spiritual Adam, that is, our Lord Jesus Christ, who committed no sin [cf. 1 Pet. 2:22]’.

‘A nature is a nature because it is something made by God. But a nature falls away from God because the nature was made out of nothing. Yet, man did not so fall away from Being as to be absolutely nothing but, in so far as he turned (inclined) himself toward himself he became less than he was when he was adhering to God, who is supreme. [CCL 29: 272-73]

‘Therefore, given that our nature sinned in paradise we are now formed through a mortal begetting by the same Divine Providence, not according to heaven, but according to earth, not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and we have all become a mass of clay. [[CCL 44a: 177]

‘I affirmed that the evil of mankind has sprung from free choice of the will [PL 44:461]

‘In the beginning man’s nature was created without any fault and without any sin however, human nature in which we are all born from Adam now requires a physician, because it is not healthy’.

‘Because marriage is not the cause of the sin which is transmitted in the natural birth, and atoned for in the new birth; but the voluntary transgression of the first man is the cause of original sin. [PL 44:116]

‘Even in those who had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression [Rom. 5: 14]; that is, who had not yet sinned of their own individual will, as Adam did, but had drawn from him original sin ‘But at the same time infants fresh from the womb were held to be affected only by the guilt of original sin. And, inasmuch as infants do not commit any sin in the tender age of infancy by their actual transgression, original sin only is.’

‘Yet, this evil itself took its rise from the evil will of the first man; so that there is no other origin of sin but an evil will’.

‘Yet, this evil itself took its rise from the evil will of the first man; so that there is no other origin of sin but an evil will. ‘Now, seeing that they admit the necessity of baptising infants,- finding themselves unable to contravene that authority of the universal church, which has been unquestionably handed down by the Lord and his apostles,- they cannot avoid the further concession, that infants require the same benefits of the ‘For by this grace he [Christ] engrafts into his body even baptised infants, who certainly have not yet become able to imitate any one’ PL

‘Hence, likewise, Pelagians refuse to believe that in infants original sin is remitted through baptism, for they contend that no such original sin exists at all in people by their birth’.

‘Are we going to say that our will, when it is right, does not know what it should desire, what it should avoid? But if it does know, then doubtless it possesses its own kind of knowledge which cannot be there without memory and understanding’.

‘I think that death in this passage (Romans 7) signifies a carnal habit which resists the good will through a delighting in temporal pleasure’.

‘But while the soul is still hankering for carnal pleasures, it is called ‘flesh’ and resists the Spirit . This resistance does not spring from the soul’s nature but from a habit of sin)…This habit of sin has been engrafted on our nature through human generation (birth) as a result, of the first man’s sin’

‘I say that there was free exercise of will in that man who was first formed. He was so made that absolutely nothing could resist his will, if he had willed to keep the precepts of God. But after he voluntarily sinned, we who have descended from his stock were plunged into necessity. For today in our actions before we are implicated by any habit, we have free choice of doing anything or not doing it’.

‘We see from these words [Gen. 3. 4-5] that Adam and Eve were persuaded to sin through pride for this is the meaning of the statement “You will be like gods’.

‘The soul lapses by pride into certain actions of its own power, and neglecting universal law has fallen into doing certain things private to itself, and this is called turning away from God. Then, take our very love for all those things that prove so vain and poisonous and breed so many heartaches, troubles, griefs and fears; such insane joys in discord, strife, and war; such wrath and plots of enemies, deceivers, sycophants; such fraud and theft and robbery; such perfidy and pride, envy and ambition, homicide and murder, cruelty and savagery, lawlessness and lust; all the shameless passions of the impure-fornication and adultery, incest and unnatural sins, rape and countless other uncleanesses too nasty to be mentioned’.