Quote image editor
“Happy is he alone, to whom the Lord imputeth not sin. To have Him propitious to me, against whom alone I have sinned, suffices for all my righteousness. If my iniquity is great, Thy grace is much greater. When my soul is troubled at the view of its sinfulness, I look at Thy mercy , and am refreshed. It is a common good ; is offered to all ; and he only who rejects it, is deprived of its benefits. Let him rejoice who feels himself a wretch deserving of perpetual damnation ; for the grace of Jesus exceeds the number of all crimes. There is no sin greater than to despair of the forgiveness of sin ; for God is kind and merciful, ready to forgive.” — Bernard of Clairvaux
Happy is he alone, to whom the Lord imputeth not
sin. To have Him propitious to me, against whom alone
I have sinned, suffices for all my righteousness. If my
iniquity is great, Thy grace is much greater. When my
soul is troubled at the view of its sinfulness, I look at Thy
mercy , and am refreshed. It is a common good ; is
offered to all ; and he only who rejects it, is deprived of
its benefits. Let him rejoice who feels himself a wretch
deserving of perpetual damnation ; for the grace of Jesus
exceeds the number of all crimes. There is no sin greater
than to despair of the forgiveness of sin ; for God is kind
and merciful, ready to forgive.