To this I answer that (in my opinion) their saying (if it be well understood) is true, and no whit contrary to what I have said, for this Name Jesus is nothing else in English but healer or health. Now every man that liveth in this wretched life is spiritually sick, for there is no man that liveth without sin, which is a spiritual sickness, as St John saith of himself, and of other perfect men thus: If we say we have no sin, we beguile ourselves, and there is as no truth in us. Therefore he can never come to the joy of Heaven, till he be first healed of this ghostly sickness. But this spiritual healing may no man have (that hath the use of reason) except he desire it, and love it, and have delight therein, inasmuch as he hopeth to get it. (John Climacus)

We do not seek out a physician until we recognize we are ill.

To diagnose the illness we will be asked to identify our symptoms.

The good physician will use our symptoms to identify the cause of our illness.

In most cases treating the illness will require a change in behavior.

Denying symptoms, diagnosis, or prescription will merely continue - and often deepen - our disease.