Showing posts with label sin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sin. Show all posts

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Spurgeon on Anger and Sin.

"Doest thou well to be angry?" It may be that we can answer, "YES." Very frequently anger is the madman's firebrand, but sometimes it is Elijah's fire from heaven. We do well when we are angry with sin, because of the wrong which it commits against our good and gracious God; or with ourselves because we remain so foolish after so much divine instruction; or with others when the sole cause of anger is the evil which they do. He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it. Sin is a loathsome and hateful thing, and no renewed heart can patiently endure it.  

-Charles Spurgeon

Our God, Ourselves: knowledge, unknowing, abhorrence of nature, and oddly enough, balloons

 Knowledge allows equally for pleasure, pain, gain and injury…. ( Nietzsche , the philosophic life of seekers, in his definition of humanity...