Thursday, July 16, 2015

Betrayed.......................................


"Man is an individual but he is not self-sufficing.  The law of his nature is love, a harmonious relation of life to life in obedience to the divine centre and source of his life.  This law is violated when man seeks to make himself the centre and source of his own life.   His sin is therefore spiritual and not carnal, though the infection of rebellion spreads from the spirit to the body and disturbs its harmonies also.  Man, in other words, is a sinner not because he is one limited individual within a whole but rather because he is betrayed by his very ability to survey the whole to imagine himself the whole."
-Reinhold Niebuhr

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