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The Insanity of Sin 

Sin is NEVER natural. It is horribly UN-natural. Sin is NEVER "human." It is horribly IN-human. Sin creates remorse, guilt and shame; every time a person feels these three witnesses in his soul, they tell him sin is NOT natural. Even the simple lie-detector can tell us this. The whole body reacts adversely when a person sins. Sin is in fact, a kind of insanity. (Ecclesiastes 9:3)

~Winkie Pratney
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... Death to Self 


"The hardest death to die is death to self. The most difficult thing to do is to admit wrong and get the past cleaned up. ...God has given us two deeply powerful principles to overcome it. They are the moral forces of confession, to bring self-honesty and forgiveness, and restitution, to right wherever possible the harm that has been done by selfishness."


~Winkie Pratney
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The Admiration of Selfishness??? 

"It is a strange thing, but selfishness has never been admired. No creed or religion in history has thought well of the man who betrayed those who loved and helped him the most, or became a coward to save his own neck. Even dedicated Marxists have annual twinges of conscience. This rule God gave us -- the rule of  fairness -- is known by all races, regardless of language, religion or training. Both 'civilized' and 'savage' know this inwritten law of happiness. As long as a person can function as a moral being, it will throw light on their conduct."

~Winkie Pratney
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