Patristic Quote of the Day

Thus the Law, Grace not helping, forbidding sin, became over and above the strength of sin; whence the Apostle says, The Law is the strength of sin. Nor is it to be wondered at, that man's weakness even from the good Law added strength to evil, while it trusts to fulfill the Law itself of its own strength. -- St. Augustine, *On Continence* par. 7