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Christian Quote of the Week:

Excuses for Sin

"Men do not love to condemn themselves; they are prejudiced in their own favor, and in favour of whatever is found in themselves. Hence they will find out good names, by which to call their evil dispositions and practices; they will make them virtuous, or at least will make them innocent. Their covetousness they will call prudence and diligence in business. If they rejoice at another's calamity, they pretend it is because they hope it will do him good, and will humble him. If they indulge in excessive drinking, it is because their constitutions require it. If they talk against and backbite their neighbour they call it zeal against sin; it is because they would bear a testimony against such wickedness. If they set up their wills to oppose others in public affairs, then they call their willfulness conscience, or respect to the public good. -- Thus they find good names for all their evil ways."

-– Jonathan Edwards in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2 (from "Christian Cautions"), pg. 176

Related Bible Verse:  "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." (Psalm 139:23-24)

Note: The work from which the above quote was taken (The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2 , by Jonathan Edwards) is available at the following link, free of charge:

http://books.google.com/books?id=0bfRAAAAMAAJ&dq=jonathan+edwards+christian+cautions&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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