It is good to make confession to you, Lord, and to say “Have mercy on me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.” I must not abuse your mercy so as to make it license for sin, but remember the Lord’s saying “Look, you are made whole, now do not sin, lest something worse happen to you.” For you alone are the healer of the disease that afflicted me, you who resist the proud by give grace to the humble.

—Augustine, Confessions 4.3.4-5