Are you able to acknowledge truth, even when you can't live up to it? Even if we cannot do something good, even if we willfully and sinfully choose to do something that is wrong, we should still try to acknowledge what is good and true, rather than justify our behavior. - Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness
At least I've done one thing pretty much right my whole life, apparently.
This is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We try to "know" for ourselves what is true, what is right and wrong. But we always interpret it so as to justify ourselves.
One Friday afternoon they nailed truth to a tree.
But on Sunday morning, truth rose from the dead.
You cannot kill truth.
You can put it in a tomb, but you cannot keep it there. - ibid.
Oh, but how we try!
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