This creature asked Our Lord how she should best love him, and Our Lord said: 'Have mind of thy wickedness and think of thy goodness.'  She said again: 'I am the most unworthy creature that ever thou showedst grace unto on earth.'  'Oh daughter,' said Our Lord, 'fear thee nothing.  I take no heed what a man hath been, but I take heed what he will be.'

Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe.