Depressed by Your Sin?

10Mar09

Do you beat yourself up over certain sins (as I often do)? Here’s Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) on this apparently ancient dilemma: Grief for sins is necessary, but must not be perpetual. My advice is to turn back at times from sorrow and the anxious remembrance of your ways, and escape to the plain, to a calm [...]

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