It does not matter whether you are Christian (like I am) or not everyone believes in some sort of "wrong" or "evil" even if that view is twisted as an opposite view towards the larger populations views.
I speak as a Christian who sins daily yet can do nothing about it. No matter how passionate I get about curbing my sin, which surely is not often, I find myself still falling infinitely distant from any improvement. I will sin until I die be it 50 years more or 1, I will always sin, every single day. When I put it like that it sounds rather depressing to know that I had an unimaginable sacrifice given for that which I know I can never fix. This unimaginable sacrifice allows my sinful self to be given something I do not deserve.
I would like to point out that there surely are an abundance of things that can be covered while discussing sin though I write this mainly to sit back and reflect on how flawed I am.
There is no amount of praying or studying the Bible that will EVER bring me any closer to a sinless day. How difficult is that to swallow? What goal must I be looking for while I know that perfection surely is not one of them.
One thing I will assume is that cutting off both praying and reading will make my sinful self begin to doubt that which I believe and lead to a testing of whether my faith is true or not.
I could compare the Christian life to a leaky ceiling in a house under a ceaseless rain. No matter how much the owner of the house works daily to fix the roof it is just to much rain. The only thing he can do is keep his roof from collapsing. Even if he spends all of his time working on it, the rain will never stop and he will never improve his situation.
I will always sin and no amount of prayer or reading of my Bible will ever bring me to a comfortable resting place. I always should be praying and reading more hoping that one day my actions will be seen by someone else whose roof has collapsed and hopefully their home will be rebuilt with God alone.
I will tell you that realizing how much you have failed really is not something that is easy to recover from. I think we all 'recover' through sinning more to cover up where we are rather then stepping back and addressing the full situation.
