Indiana Congressman Mark Souder announced today he will resign his seat after it became known that he had an affair with a staffer. I don't know Mark Souder and know nothing of the hard and, hopefully, beneficial work he did. But I did read his resignation statement (see the end of the article).
Two things struck me about this statement:
1. "HUMAN BEINGS, LIKE ME, WILL FAIL, BUT OUR CAUSE IS GREATER THAN INDIVIDUALS. IT IS BASED UPON ETERNAL TRUTHS."
This is one of the most dangerous statements anyone can make. I find it ironic that it appears in an apology.
2. "MY COMFORT IS THAT GOD IS A GRACIOUS AND FORGIVING GOD TO THOSE WHO SINCERELY SEEK HIS FORGIVENESS AS I DO."
There is a line from Middlemarch by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) that goes like this:
"...[transgressions] may be held with intense satisfaction when the depth of our sinning is but a measure for the depth of forgiveness, and a clenching proof that we are peculiar instruments of divine intention."
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