This is not a bug but rather a feature. Through grace alone can we be said to be good enough. Through love are our sins pardoned. The impossibility of being truly good is often mistaken as a source for guilt and shame and heartache. Grace and love quench this.
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This is also not an excuse to become complacent. The child who loves his father will strive to obey, not rest on his father’s patience and forbearance. We are expected to pursue perfection all the days of our life while understanding that it will always remain beyond our fingers.
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There is freedom, purpose, meaning, and hope in this balance. Imperfection can be forgiven through grace and love. Filial piety demands sincere striving to atone for the past through obedient works now and tomorrow. Those works never create salvation but are outward signs.
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Everyone's bad at being Catholic, even the ones who haven't been initiated in the sacraments yet. But receiving those sacraments definitely helps.
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Been one for 45 years now and I still get it wrong some of the time... that's what the entirety of the Sacrament of Reconciliation is for.
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I understand and I appreciate the warning. I also believe that the presence of serpents does not excuse a man from stepping into the tunnels where God has commanded him to go.
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Analogy: moral perfection is swimming from SF to Hawaii. The “good” make it 100 miles; the Hitlers swim up the Sacramento and wind up in Lake Shasta

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Ha, that makes sense good sense.
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