[[catechism-of-the-catholic-church|Table of Contents]] --- - PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST - SECTION ONE: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT - CHAPTER ONE: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON - Article 8: SIN - IN BRIEF > [[3.1.1.8.p6d|Previous]] - [[3.1.2.0.p6f|Next]] --- # Article 8. sin – In Brief *1870 "God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all" (Rom 11:32).* ^ccc-1870 *1871 Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22: PL 42, 418). It is an offense against God. It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary to the obedience of Christ.* ^ccc-1871 *1872 Sin is an act contrary to reason. It wounds man's nature and injures human solidarity.* ^ccc-1872 *1873 The root of all sins lies in man's heart. The kinds and the gravity of sins are determined principally by their objects.* ^ccc-1873 *1874 To choose deliberately - that is, both knowing it and willing it - something gravely contrary to the divine law and to the ultimate end of man is to commit a mortal sin. This destroys in us the charity without which eternal beatitude is impossible. Unrepented, it brings eternal death.* ^ccc-1874 *1875 Venial sin constitutes a moral disorder that is reparable by charity, which it allows to subsist in us.* ^ccc-1875 *1876 The repetition of sins - even venial ones - engenders vices, among which are the capital sins.* ^ccc-1876 --- > [[3.1.1.8.p6d|Previous]] - [[3.1.2.0.p6f|Next]]