If we have died to sin, how will we live in it any longer? If we bemoan our negligences, why do we relapse into them? Will we now be found once more as meddlesome as we were before? As talktative as before, as lazy and negligent as before? Vain, suspicious, slanderous, bad-tempered, and caught up in the other vices we have deplored with such distress during these days? I have washed my feet; how will I soil them once more? I have put off my garment; how will I put it on? This is not entering another state, my brothers; not thus is Christ seen; this is not the way by which God shows us His salvation. One who looks back is not worthy of the kingdom of God.
SAINT BERNARD
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