Love Yourself In The Lord

“God loves you the way you are, and He asks you to receive from Him grace and forgiveness so you can become the way your heart desires! Only He can forgive and cleanse you. Your hate toward yourself stains you. You need to ask the Lord for His mercy, and not to punish or hate yourself. And when you judge yourself, as the Holy Church and the Lord teach us, you need to judge the sin, the passion, in a concrete way, and not you as a person. Do you understand this, I wonder? You have the obligation to take care of yourself so you can live with dignity and joy. You have the commandment to love yourself in the Lord so that you can love your neighbor.”
Saint Siluana
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