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title: Sinners
description: When God gave us Free Will,  He knew we would misuse it and sin. And of course, we did, and do. But there's hope, and Kaye Hinckley points that out for us today.
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# Sinners

Apr 15, 2014 1:30:19 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest)

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If you’re a sinner, raise your hand.

Okay, mine is the first hand up.

I find comfort in the fact that there is no one on earth without sin. Each of us comes from a long line of sinners.

But think about this: How many of us have felt closer to God after repenting of a sin?

Maybe our sin brought us so low that there was no way but up. Or maybe we saw how we’d hurt someone we loved, and promised, “Never again.”

When God gave us Free Will,  He knew we would misuse it and sin. And of course, we did, and do.

> *Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him – thirsting, hungering, seeking.   And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! *  
> *  
>  Pride swells and inflates the ego. Gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless ‘saint’.*
> 
> *Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth. The man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows.”  
>  ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ*

If we don’t recognize ourselves as real, honest-to-goodness sinners,  our chance of salvation is shaky at best—because we’ll never change what we won’t admit to.

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