Corruption leads people to lose the modesty that safeguards truth, goodness, and beauty. The corrupt man often doesn’t realize his own condition, much as a person with bad breath does not know they have it. And it’s not easy for the corrupt man to get out of this state by feeling inner remorse. Generally, the Lord saves him through life’s great ordeals, situations that he cannot avoid and which crack open the shell that he has gradually built up, thus allowing the Grace of God to enter.
