Popular Categories + Love + Parental + Life + Success + Attitude + Compassion + Work + Friendship + Honesty + Death & Dying + God + Religions + Prayer + Christianity + Buddhism & Zen + Judaism More Categories... Other Services + Submit Stories + Contact Us + Copyright Info + Privacy Statement   Main : Religions & Spirituality : God Sin   by: Anthony de Mello, SJ, One Minute Wisdom Printer Friendly Version Comment on Article One of the disconcerting -- and delightful —teachings of the Master was: "God is closer to sinners than to saints." This is how he explained it: "God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing you a little closer to him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each further knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer."  Related Stories   ++ Barriers to God  ++ Meeting God  ++ Blind Men and the Elephant, The  ++ Song of the Sea, The  ++ Footprints  ++ King Canute on the Seashore  ++ No God  ++ Comprehension  ++ Wemmick Story, The  Related Resources  Books :  ++ Communion With God  ++ Friendship With God  ++ How to Know God

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