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<br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Jesus was distinguishing between </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">sins</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> and </span></b></span><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic;background-color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">sin</span></span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">,
 <b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">between</span></b> t<b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">he underlying disease <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">and</span> its many symptoms. </span></b>When the Curé 
d’Ars was asked what wisdom he had gained about human nature from his 
many years of hearing confessions, he responded, <b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">“People are much sadder
 than they
seem</span></b>.” Blaise Pascal rests his apologetic for Christianity on the simple
 fact that<b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> all people are unhappy. This universal, enduring, and 
stubborn sadness </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">is sin.</span></b></span></div>
<br><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Now,
<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> this does not mean that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">sin is identical to </span>psychological depression. 
The worst sinners can be the most psychologically well-adjusted people, 
and the greatest saints can be, by any ordinary measure, quite unhappy.</b></span></span></div>
<b><br></b><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">When
 I speak of <b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">sadness in this context, </span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I mean</span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> the deep sense of 
unfulfillment</span></b>.<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> </span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">We</span> want the truth and <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we </span>get it, <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">if at all, in dribs and 
drabs; we </span>want the good, and <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we </span>achieve it<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> only rarely; we</span> seem to know 
what <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">we</span> ought to be,<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> but we are in fact something else</span></span></b>. T<b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">his spiritual 
frustration, this inner warfare, this debility of <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">soul</span>, is sin.</span></b></span></div><div style="outline:none;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"><span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnakk és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.</span></b></span><span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></b></span></div></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b>  <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id="m_7175581280596843228DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><table style="border-top:1px solid rgb(211,212,222)"><tbody><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:rgb(65,66,78);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Vírusmentes.<a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" style="color:rgb(68,83,234)" target="_blank">www.avg.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="#m_7175581280596843228_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>
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