This us what I should have written, should have said to Lily:
'The forgiveness of sins is not a matter of particulars – as if on the whole one were good. (This is childish, for the child always begs forgiveness for some particular thing which it did yesterday and forgets today, etc.; it could never occur to a child, in fact, the child could not even get it into its head, that it is actually evil.) No, it is just the opposite. It pertains not so much to particulars as to the totality. It pertains to one’s whole self, which is sinful and corrupts everything as soon as it comes in slightest contact with it.' S Kierkegaard
This us what I should have written, should have said to Lily:
'The forgiveness of sins is not a matter of particulars – as if on the whole one were good. (This is childish, for the child always begs forgiveness for some particular thing which it did yesterday and forgets today, etc.; it could never occur to a child, in fact, the child could not even get it into its head, that it is actually evil.) No, it is just the opposite. It pertains not so much to particulars as to the totality. It pertains to one’s whole self, which is sinful and corrupts everything as soon as it comes in slightest contact with it.' S Kierkegaard