“Not being reconciled to the fact of sin— not
recognizing it and refusing to deal with it— produces all the disasters in
life. You may talk about the lofty virtues of human nature, but there is
something in human nature that will mockingly laugh in the face of every
principle you have. If you refuse to agree with the fact that there is
wickedness and selfishness, something downright hateful and wrong, in human
beings, when it attacks your life, instead of reconciling yourself to it, you
will compromise with it and say that it is of no use to battle against it…The pure man or woman is the one who
is shielded from harm, not the innocent person. The so-called innocent man or
woman is never safe. Men and women have no business trying to be innocent; God
demands that they be pure and virtuous. Innocence is the characteristic of a
child. Any person is deserving of blame if he is unwilling to reconcile himself
to the fact of sin."
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