If anyone thinks that Christian regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least 'bad' of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting people in the wrong, of bossing and patronizing and spoiling sport, backbiting, the pleasures of power, of hatred. For there are two things inside me, competing with the human self which I must try to become. They are the Animal self and the Diabolical self.
The diabolical self is the worst of the two. That is why a cold, self righteous prig who goes to church regularly may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither.Jesus said as much to the Pharisees when they wanted to stone the adulterer. He knew there were some maniacal things in the hearts of those men. The sexual sins surely are a prison unto themselves, but the cold, calculated attempts by men to keep their hearts closed to the workings of God's spirit is infinitely worse.
A broken heart, no matter the reason it is in that place, is in a better position to be healed and restored than a heart that runs from God for fear of the prescription.
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