When man cast off God, his passions and affections rebelled against his reason, and his body against his soul.
 
And so I argue about the world; – if there be a God, since there is a God, the human race is implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity. It is out of joint with the purposes of its Creator. This is a fact, a fact as true as the fact of its existence; and thus the doctrine of what is theoloigcally called original sin becomes to me almost as certain as that the world exists, and as the existence of God.
 
All quotes from the Newman A to Z are taken from The Quotable Newman, recently published by Sophia Institute Press.