Sin

A statement on the devastating consequences of sin by one who gives sin its due weight:

"Everyone is a god to themself.
"Thus no-one chooses in the abstract to go to hell, or even to be the kind of person who belongs there.  But their orientation toward self leads them to become the kind of person for whom away-from-God is the only place for which they are suited.  It is a place which they would, in the end, choose for themselves, rather than humble themselves before God and accept who he is."
- Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart