"Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly"
"Most of us are not really approaching the subject [what a Christian society should look like] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. We are looking for an ally where we are offerred either a Master or - a Judge."
"In the same way a Chrisitian can lose the Christ-life which has been put into him, and he has to make efforts to keep it. But even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam - he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts...In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out. "
"More often, I think, the couple (or one of them) hoped to decieve the public. They wanted the respectability that is attached to marriage without intending to pay the price: that is, they were imposters, they cheated....If people do not believe in permanent marriage, it is perhaps better that they should live together unmarried than that they should make vows they do not mean to keep. It is true by living together without marriage they will be guilty (in Christian eyes) of fornication. But one fault is not mended by adding another: unchastity is not improved by adding perjury. "
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