Confession and God’s Healing Mercy 'Very few men can accurately recognize all their own faults; indeed,
only those can do this whose intellect is never torn away from the
remembrance of God. Our bodily eyes, when healthy, can see everything,
even gnats and mosquitoes flying about in the air; but when they are
clouded by some discharge, they see large objects only indistinctly and
small things not at all. Similarly if the soul, through attentiveness,
reduces the blindness caused by the love of this world, it will
consider its slightest faults to be very grave and will continually
shed tears with deep thankfulness. For it is written, "The righteous
shall give thanks unto Thy name" (Ps. 140:13). But if the soul persists
in its worldly disposition, even though it commits a murder or some
other act deserving severe punishment, it takes little notice; and it is
quite unable to discern its other faults, often considering them to be
signs of progress, and in its wretchedness it is not ashamed to defend
them heatedly.'
St. Diadochos of Photiki
Confession and God's Healing Mercy
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