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" This is the only discovery that God has made of any such property in his nature , or of any thought of exercising it towards sinners , - in that he has sent Jesus Christ into the world , that we might live by him . In the case of damnation , He regarded the sinner , whom He had not given to Christ in the election of grace , and whom He from eternity saw as a sinner . Do not turn from me , an unclean sinner , who have destroyed myself with unworthy thoughts , words and deeds , and have been enslaved by forgetfulness to the carnal passions of life ; but have compassion on me , O Theotokos , and accept the prayer of a sinner and prodigal , offered from unclean lips . Its members consecrated themselves to the Blessed Virgin Mary , invoked Her daily for the conversion of sinners , and strove by every licit means to build up the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart throughout the world . I know , indeed , that , to those who advocate this theory , there is so much difference between internal and external action , that is , as they say , between the decree and its execution , that God may decree salvation according to mercy and death according to justice to a person who is not a sinner , but may not really save , according to mercy , any one , unless , He is a sinner , or damn , according to justice , any except sinners . If the hymn be of a joyful character it is not directly calculated to benefit sinners , and is highly fitted to relieve the mental anguish of the Christian , so as to destroy that travail of soul which is indispensable to his prevailing in prayer . All men are born sinners , dead in their trespasses and sins . I had often read that the body of a presumptuous sinner , who , during life , had been the willing creature of every satanic impulse , after the human tenant had deserted it , had been known to become the horrible sport of demoniac possession . " God did not hate Esau , the man , but He did hate Esau , the sinner , " and again , " Was not Jacob , therefore , a sinner , because God loved him ? I had not the most distant idea until recently , that these Lectures , is this , or any other form , would ever grow into a book ; but the urgent call for their publication , in a volume , and the fact that I have had repeated assurances that the reading of them in the Evangelist , has been owned and blessed , to the quickening of individuals and churches , and has resulted in the conversion of many sinners , have led me to consent to their publication in this imperfect form .