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"Dost thou not see that they tremble at thy presence, knowing that the avenger of blood is among them."

“I confess. But still I had hopes of forgiveness, because I never sinned from principle, but accident; and then I always tried to repent of these sins by the slump, for individually it was impossible; and, though not always successful in my endeavours, I could not help that, the grace of repentance being withheld from me, I regarded myself as in no degree accountable for the failure.”

"If I could repent me of all my sins, and shed tears of blood for them, still have I not a load of original transgression pressing on me that is enough to crush me to the lowest hell. I may be angry with my first parents for having sinned, but how I shall repent me of their sin is beyond what I am able to comprehend."

There's a quote that really struck me:

"But the oppressor who thinks of himself as serving God, or History, or the Party will never reform because his impulses of human decency appear to him as temptations to be resisted."

Very relevant considering that it's midterm season and Christian nationalism is on the rise.

a faustian twist!

Este otoño va de backwoods prophets

been in my tv show era and keep forgetting whats happened so its going on pause until ive stopped obsessing over the vampire diaries

The homoerotic tension between you (a bitter fellow with religious ocd who desperately wants to kill his brother) and your best friend (a strange who convinced you have already been saved by God and therefore are exempt from sinning and who might or might not be Satan)

Gothic authors really have a thing for making Satan the funniest character in their novel…