Donne: periods of silent sin

Friday, June 26, 2009

Meditation:
    Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults.
    —Psalm 19:12 (NIV)

Quotation:
    Men perish with whispering sins, nay with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often as with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.
    ... John Donne (1573-1631), Works of John Donne, vol. I, London: John W. Parker, 1839, Sermon XIV, p. 276 (see the book)

Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, correct my conscience.

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