When
the heart is well-ordered, we are not only increasingly free from sin, but also
increasingly free from the desire to
sin. If the heart were truly well-ordered, we would love people so much we
would not want to deceive or
manipulate or envy them. We would be transformed from the inside out.
Imagine
what the world would be like if it were filled with people who had well-ordered
hearts. Television programs such as Miami
Vice would be replaced by Miami
Virtue. Tabloids sold at grocery stores would be filled with stories about
acts of lavish generosity and spontaneous sacrifice committed by noncelebrities
we have never heard of. Television talk shows would feature [morality and not
immorality.]
We would sleep at night the untroubled sleep of innocence
-- no staring at the ceiling at two o'clock in the morning because of regrets.
We would have no need for "do-overs" or mulligans.
-- John Ortberg in The
Life You've Always Wanted
#3743
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