To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature β the wrongness in him β the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does. β¨ The Complete Works of George MacDonald.
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