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Sinning is a natural and real concept. We all make mistakes, and therefore, we all sin as children of God. It is nothing to be ashamed about, but rather something to use to make ourselves better in the future, and become more moral children of God.

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What we do for others is what makes ourselves better. Sharing is key in a world where we are all children of God. We can either share our possessions, our knowledge, or our friendships, which all make us better children of God.

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The Lord seeks to help us with every aspect of our lives. God sent His only Son, Jesus, for the sake of us, to sacrifice for our better being. God wants us to learn how to suffer and heal. God wants us to learn how to become better people. It’s all apart of his plan.

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“The answer is this. The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.”

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“This is why God has allowed you to have more: not for you to waste on prostitutes, drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and all other kinds of indolence, but for you to distribute to those in need.”

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“Mercy is called by that name for this reason, that it gives even to the unworthy.”

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“God became man so that man might become God.”

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“But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvelous works which were to be performed by the apostles and said, "By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.”

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“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.”

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Our mission as people and really Christians is to seek what is right for us, and what is best for us. This ties into doing what is best for everyone, which in turn betters ourselves. Showing mercy, or seeking the messages of the Bible will both make us better people.

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“In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.”

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He also said, “The one who makes a show of his good works and publicizes them is like the one who threw seeds on the ground, ‘and the fowls of the air came and devoured them up’ [Matt 13:4]. But the one who conceals his way of life is as one who sows in a furrow in the ground and who will reap an abundant harvest.

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“Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher.”

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“The merciful man is as a harbour to those who are in need; and the harbour receives all who are escaping shipwreck, and frees them from danger, whether they be evil or good; whatsoever kind of men they be that are in peril, it receives them into its shelter. You also, when you see a man suffering shipwreck on land through poverty, do not sit in judgment on him, nor require explanations, but relieve his distress.”

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“The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

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“A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man. ”

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“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.”

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“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”

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“The nearer a man approaches to God, the greater sinner he sees himself to be. For the prophet Isaiah saw God, and said that he was unclean and undone.”

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The abbot Pastor said, “If a man has sinned and denies it not, but says ‘I have sinned,’ scold him not, for you will break the purpose of his heart. But rather say to him, ‘Do not be sad, my brother, but watch yourself hereafter,’ and you will rouse his heart to repentance.”

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“The nearer a man approaches to God, the greater sinner he sees himself to be. For the prophet Isaiah saw God, and said that he was unclean and undone.”

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As we grow closer towards God, we begin to realize who we are, as through God we dive deep into ourselves. We get to discover what things we do well in life and things we need work on. This all happens through the Lord.

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“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.”