Many Worry

Many have come to me, worried, and said: “I’m afraid I have committed the unpardonable sin.”

I have replied, “You probably haven’t.”

But they will persist, “Yes, but I consented, in my mind, to commit that sin. Sure I was tempted — and I tried to resist it in my mind, but the more I resisted, the more I wanted to do it — until, finally, I just gave in, and consented in my mind, to do it. I did it knowingly. Wasn’t that sinning willfully? Wasn’t that the unpardonable sin?”

LET’S UNDERSTAND what is meant by “sinning willfully,” and by what is called “the unpardonable sin.”