If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
The only sin is mediocrity.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!