Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
Marcus EremitaGuard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.
Marcus EremitaEvery sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.
Marcus EremitaWhoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.
Marcus EremitaFailure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.
Marcus EremitaIt is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don't remember your sins in detail, but manfully endure the suffering that is coming because of them.
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