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In the same way a christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which christ himself carried out." - mere christianity

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In The Same Way A Christian Is

C. S. Lewis

In the same way a christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which christ himself carried out." - mere christianity

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A christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the christ-life is inside him.

I say this in the book [today matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if i haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. so all of a sudden today what i'm doing is i'm going back, i'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and i'm digging a hole. i'm not making any progress because i'm in a repairing mode, versus if i really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. tomorrow really will take care of itself if i do the right thing today.

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That the religious right completely took over the word christian is a given. at one time, phrases such as christian charity and christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. to perform a "christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. now, christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- christian nation, christian morality, christian values, christian family.

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Now repentance is no fun at all. it is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. it means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. it means undergoing a kind of death. in fact, it needs a good man to repent. and here's the catch. only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. the worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. the only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

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