A weak, ugly, sinful creature, born that way, rotten in his bones-so humility is the one virtue he ought to practice.

I am only a poor, wretched, sinful creature, totally unworthy to appear before you.

You're saying, 'How can a person like me, the humblest, most sinful creature God ever made, fight against the monstrous forces of evil?'

The orthodox view presents man as a sinful creature from whom no good at all may be expected... It eventually appears that human social behaviour is rather better than any Augustinian pessimist has any right to expect, and so a sort of optimism begins to emerge.

MAN We believe that God created man in His own image to bring Him honor through obedience, and that when man disobeyed, he became a fallen and sinful creature, unable to save himself.

He had no intention of condoning theft, but neither did he relish the idea of any creature, however sinful, falling into Hamo FitzHamon's mercies.

Man on his own is a helpless, miserable and sinful creature.

God then states that the first type of Man, the believer, is the righteous one, and that the second class is both in error and is in fact a "lying and sinful" creature.

It was due to a war that the boys became stranded on the island and this alone suggests that man is a sinful creature.

Also, in this view, natural reason is so profoundly hostile to the divine that holding it above faith is tantamount to worshiping a sinful creature as an idol.