“Let us turn and trust in the Lord while we live the season of this life, and let us prepare the viaticum of penance before our judge. Let us not fill our time with futile engagements or say that we are born to sin, but let us live to act well. And even if we fall into sin, since, given the setting of this world, it is…”
Victor of Cartenna, 5th c. — ON PENANCE 27
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23But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.
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21For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?
22For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.
— Wisdom of Solomon 11:23 —
24For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
25And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?