“But we must still consider a few other names and images for that perduring element that continues on after the act of sinning is over. For instance, the tradition speaks of a condition of bondage and imprisonment that the soul has brought upon itself by sinning–a view that seems especially convincing to raw experience. Once more we quote from the journals of Andre Gide, who knows this experience well: ‘The Evil One kidnaps us for his cause and puts us in his service. Who dares to speak of liberation here? …As if vice were not more tyrannical than duty!'”

–Josef Pieper, The Concept of Sin