SO GOOD QUOTES

REPEATED FALLING 

Due to man’s weakness, he might fall, as he is not infallible. But he has to repent and learn a lesson from his fall, so he wouldn’t fall again, as said by one of the saints, “I don’t recall the devils making me fall in the same sin twice.” 

This is real repentance, as one does not go back to the sin that he has repented. All the stories of the repentant saints refer to this meaning: that repentance was a line separating between two lives and they never turned back to their old sinful life. 

It is not true repentance when one, every time he repents, keeps on falling repeatedly, as if he has not repented! 

Repeated falling has its danger and its indication. 

It shows the lack of seriousness in one’s life with God. It may also indicate carelessness and lack of interest in the spiritual principles.

It is also an evidence that the heart has not been purified yet and it still has the love of sin, with weakness and attraction to it.

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Every time one falls, his will gets weaker.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. IV