Copperfox
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Vissarion spoke further to Darron:
"There are two very different ways of being sorry about our own wrongdoing. We can merely be selfishly sorry that we got caught...or we can be sorry for the wrong itself, wishing for it NOT to be any part of us anymore. My impression is that you, youngster, have the second kind of 'sorry'--which is good! And accept my word on this, God sees right inside you and knows which kind of 'sorry' is in there. But if it's only the selfish distress at being caught, it still is not too late to change that. Honestly, God gets no pleasure from having to condemn anyone. He can take even the a speck of genuine remorse, and enlarge it into real transformation of character."
"There are two very different ways of being sorry about our own wrongdoing. We can merely be selfishly sorry that we got caught...or we can be sorry for the wrong itself, wishing for it NOT to be any part of us anymore. My impression is that you, youngster, have the second kind of 'sorry'--which is good! And accept my word on this, God sees right inside you and knows which kind of 'sorry' is in there. But if it's only the selfish distress at being caught, it still is not too late to change that. Honestly, God gets no pleasure from having to condemn anyone. He can take even the a speck of genuine remorse, and enlarge it into real transformation of character."
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