“For the opposite of sin is faith, and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that’s not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others, and sometimes downright cruel.”
Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith & Art. Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1980, page 161.
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