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To: Agrarian; kosta50; ArrogantBustard; AlbionGirl
"We often think we are being quite holy when we are just manifesting our fallenness in a different way..."

Indeed:

"The forgetting of wrongs is a sign of true repentance. But he who dwells on them and thinks that he is repenting is like a man who thinks he is running while he is really asleep." St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent.

30 posted on 03/04/2005 3:13:08 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Nuke the Cube!)
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To: Kolokotronis
"The forgetting of wrongs is a sign of true repentance. But he who dwells on them and thinks that he is repenting is like a man who thinks he is running while he is really asleep."

Sugoi! (which is Japanese for fantastic!)

32 posted on 03/04/2005 3:40:38 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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