Something of that idea of damnation as a lack of the will for salvation has crept at a number of points into contemporary religious thought. It was the fine fancy of Swedenborg that the damned go to their own hells of their own accord. It is his definition of damnation. Satisfaction with existing things is damnation. Sin is not the same thing as damnation, as we have just defined damnation.
Damnation is a state, but sin is an incident.
One is an essential and the other an incidental separation from God. You cannot have questions of more or less among absolute things. It is the amazing and distressful discovery of every believer so soon as the first exaltation of belief is past, that one does not remain always in touch with God. At first it seems incredible that one should ever have any motive again that is not also God's motive. Then one finds oneself caught unawares by a base impulse.