Simplicity: Augustine on Ordered Love

Augustine taught that all sin is essentially disordered love -- loving lesser things more than greater things, or loving good things in the wrong way. He wrote in "On Christian Teaching": "He lives in justice and holiness who is an unprejudiced assessor of the intrinsic value of things. He is a man who has an ordinate love: he neither loves what should not be loved, nor fails to love what should be loved, nor loves more what should be loved less."…