...known to be such — cannot be desired. No doubt, we must call in St. Paul to balance Socrates: "The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." Hooker supplies the missing link between these two partial truths by his conception of the hierarchy...

...virtue and vice are strangely mixed. Often, we find ourselves declaring with the Apostle Paul, "the good that I would, I do not; and the evil that I would not is what I do." We have done things we ought not to have done; spoken things better left unsaid, harbored...

...not yet." There is something within all of us that causes us to affirm with the apostle Paul, "The good that I would, I do not; and the evil that I would not, I do." And so in a real sense the "isness" of our present nature is out of harmony with the eternal...

...develop all sorts of resistances that hinder responsible action. St. Paul's experience is our own: "The good that I would, I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do." A high school senior, within eight weeks of finishing, jeopardizes graduation by not getting out of...

...repeats his paraphrase of Ovid. In the Howard University version of this sermon, he quoted Paul: "'The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do'" 318 (Cf. Romans 7: 19). make some move in life. That's the time you must do it! That is the meaning...

...that we spoke of in connection with Baptism. It's the struggle St. Paul described when he said, "The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." This understanding is, I believe, more true to the actual experience of people than the approach that...

...moment of choice, of all the relevant information - one who says regretfully, but with clear eyes, 'The good that I would, I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do.'101 It may be, despite all this, that a sufficiently radical cognitive transformation, a deep enough...

...childhood ignorance does not help anyone. doing some violence to those we long most to understand. "The good that I would I do not, and the evil that I would not do, that I do" was Saint Paul's classic statement of the problem. There is no evading this dilemma....

...wish to go in one direction but be "outvoted" by stronger inner voices. "The good that I would do, I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do" (Romans 7:15, 19). Is the will free to decide what it wants? The will needs to be stirred. I need to...

...discovery of Paul in Romans 7 that "I do not undersrand my own behavior. For the good that I would do, I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." Heart, will, and desire are essentially one. The Argument from Desire is the Argument from the Heart....