Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say: I am too great a sinner to change or God does not want me anymore. God will take anyone who is willing to love, not with an occasional gesture, but with a passionless passion, a wild tranquility. A sinner, unrepentant, cannot love God, any more than a man on dry land can swim; but as soon as his errant energies take the Living Water of God's love and asks for redirection, he will become happy, as he was never happy before. It is not the wrong things one has already done which keep one from God; it is the present persistence in that wrong.
Bishop Fulton Sheen
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