"Any honest person knows this. We know we are not what we were meant to be. If we'll stop shifting the blame for just a moment, stop trying to put the onus on some other person or policy or race, if we'll take a naked and frank assessment of ourselves, well then. Most of us will squirm and dodge and admit that perhaps we fall a bit short. If we're truly honest, we'll confess that we have it in us to be the Beast, the wicked stepsister, Scrooge. Most of the world religions concur on this point. It's not just the obvious evils like murder and racism and betrayal. Each of us us fraught with fears and suspicions and petty jealousies. we are above all else, self-centered - the very opposite of how the Trinity lives. You have loved God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength? You have loved your neighbor as yourself? Neither have I. We all fail on the most essential virtue of all, the virtue of Eden: we fail when it comes to loving."
-Epic, The Story God is Telling - John Eldredge
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