God loves us toughly enough allow us happy sins. recollection sin righ — Thomas C. Oden, Pastoral Theology: Essentials Ministry

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God loves us toughly enough not to allow us to be happy with our sins. The recollection of sin rightly brings misery of conscience. How else could moral awareness be saved from sentimentality? The deepest human happiness, we learn, is grounded in holiness – God's holy love and our responsive attempts to reflect it fittingly.

Thomas C. Oden, Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry

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