God is not the author of sin because He constantly impresses the impulse to continue on whoever sins or stops at some particular good, because He gives the sinner the power of thinking of other things and of proceeding to goods other than the one that is actually the object of his thought and love, because He commands him not to love whatever he can refuse to love without being troubled by remorse, and because He unceasingly reminds him of Himself through the secret reproaches of his reason.