And if we by our blindness and our wretchedness we fall at any time, we should readily rise, knowing the sweet touch of grace, and with all our will amend ourselves according to the teaching of holy Church, according to the grievousness of the sin, and go straight to God in love. We should neither, on the one hand, fall too low and incline to despair; nor, on the other hand, be over-reckless, as if it were an unimportant matter. But nakedly we are to acknowledge our feebleness, knowing that but for this keeping grace, we cannot stand for even the twinkling of an eye. And so we reverently cling
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