...bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but to be cured.
When a man who has been perverted from his youth and taught that cruelty is the right thing, does some tiny little kindness, or refrains from some cruelty he might have committed, and thereby, perhaps, risks being sneered at by his companions, he may, in God's eyes, be doing more than you and I would if we gave up life itself for a friend.
...That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw [psychological] material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man's psychological make-up is probably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or the worst out of this material will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then, for the first time, see every one as he really was. There will be surprises.
- C. S. Lewis
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With this quote, I believe that perhaps you do understand afterall. I just wish it was something you could express in your own words so that the idea wasn't so limited to what another human being believed or thought. Don't let your mind stop at the quote marks...consider it further...don't just take it for a good point, post it on your blog, and go on. I would be more interested in reading your thoughts on the quotes you choose to post.
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