Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Conscience is God present in man.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.