It was the insight of Augustine that no created good can satisfy the restlessness of the human heart, which finds perfect fulfillment in God alone. Unable to enter lovingly into a fulfilling relationship with God because of sin, however, the heart, intent on satiating its desires, grasps at straws and seeks to cling to them, thereby succeeding mearly in whetting further it's desires and exacerbating its own unhappiness and insecurity. The disparity between the boundlessness of human desire and the capacity of what desire can actually achieve by its own power merely leads to the frustration and emptiness that finally tears human society apart.
JOE EGAN The Godless Delusion
