It is with the transgressor as with the falling stone, the further he falls the faster he falls. Our hope is that we shall be approved of Him, and shall hear Him say: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” A man who does not know Christ is a wretched man; a man who has never been renewed in heart, who lives in sin and loves it, is a pitiable being, a lost soul over whom angels might weep. As for myself, I know that I was born in sin, and I know that in me—that is, in my flesh—there dwelleth no good