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| | The Ideal Life - PENITENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | And Peter's penitence is full of the deepest spiritual meaning to all who have ever made Peter's discovery--that they have sinned. |
 | | But it is no Divine gift of grace, this penitence--it is merely wounded pride--sorrow that we did not do better, that we were not so good as ourselves and our neighbours thought. |
 | | Our fall last week, or yesterday, or to-day, was just as great, perhaps, as Peter's fall, or David's, or Noah's, or Jacob's, or the many private sins which history has made public examples, or the Bible placed as beacons to all the race. |
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