‘Lord, I do not understand my own actions. I know that nothing good dwells within me, in my flesh. I do not do what I want, but I do the very things that I hate. I can will what is right but I cannot do it. I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. When I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. Wretched and damned man that I am! Will you rescue me from this body of death?’
