"Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has
been, if he is repenting, he is a righteous man. There is hope for him.
And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting,
he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man
on the top of the stairs facing down is much worse off than the man on
the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is
repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad."
(from "Of All Things" p. 7, a Hugh Nibley quote book edited by Gary
Gillum, 2nd edition.)
"The righteous are who ever are repenting.
What do you repent of and how do you repent? It’s all a matter of
seeking. When you repent you turn from seeking some things to seeking
others. What you seek are the desires of your heart and as Alma says,
by that alone you will be judged." (Alma 41:3) because Nibley is not an
apostle I’ve found scriptures that validate that.
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the
tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off
your relish for spiritual things, what ever increases the authority of
the body over the mind, that this is sin to you, however innocent is may
seen in itself. -Susan Wesley, mother of John Wesley.
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