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The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. the indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.
-John Owen
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The Indulgence Of One Sin Opens The

John Owen
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. the indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.
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You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. after you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. one door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. it's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. the initial door that god opens is your access to more opportunities. but you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things god has for you.
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When god gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. people didn't like jesus. oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but jesus said, "i am the door. any man who enters must come by me. if you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." well, if omarosa manigault is the door to donald trump, well i kind of like that door. that's a pretty door. that's an intelligent door. that's a spiritually rooted door.
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Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often 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.
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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. there is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. the critics will never forgive you such. the great rudyard kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. i keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.
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To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. a man is right when there is no wrong in him. i do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; i mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.
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Later on, when i tried to imagine how i might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that i'd so rarely resisted, that i hadn't made it hard enough for him. maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.
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