Sin

Yesterday I heard someone say, "Sin feels like freedom until you try to stop." 

That's a thought that has stuck with me.

4 comments:

Texan99 said...

A related thought I saw posted somewhere recently: We might find prayer more effective if we stopped thinking of it as a substitute for obedience.

Larry said...

C.S. Lewis said, “No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good…Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.”

Thomas Doubting said...

In a radio program I listened to recently on The Lord of the Rings and Catholicism, one of the speakers talked about the ring being analogous to sin and that our attachment to sin "gollumizes" us.

Korora said...

Jabba the Hutt strikes me as a hedonist so steeped in the Horror of the Same Old Thing that not only have innocent sources of pleasure palled on him, but so have some truly horrific ones.