"Think of your past sins to persuade yourself of your weakness; think of them to confirm your resolution not to fall again -- that's necessary -- but think of them mainly to bless Jesus for having pardoned you, for having purified you, for having cast all your sins to the bottom of the sea.
Do not go looking for them at the bottom of the sea! He has wiped them out; He has forgotten them....
I'm not saying that you believe too much in your own wretchedness. I'm telling you that you don't believe enough in merciful love.
Why are you here?
Why were you baptized?
Why have you learned to know Jesus and to love him?
Because God has chosen you, and preferred you from all eternity, to heap these graces upon you. God's greatest pleasure is to pardon us. The good Lord is more eager to pardon a repentant sinner than a mother to rescue her child from the fire."
July 24, 2009
He Has Wiped Them Out
From a Sophia Institute Press email regarding the book I Believe in Love:
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