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> [“Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/contrition-for-an-offence-must-precede-the-pardon-of-an-offence/)

[Octavius Winslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavius-winslow/)

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## More by Octavius Winslow

> [If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/if-god-has-laid-your-sins-upon-the-son-of-his-love-you-may-rest/)

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> [Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/christ-took-your-cup-of-grief-your-cup-of-the-curse-pressed-it-to-his/)

[Octavius Winslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavius-winslow/)

> [Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/prayer-is-the-pulse-of-the-renewed-soul-and-the-constancy-of-its-beat/)

[Octavius Winslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavius-winslow/)

> [The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/the-death-of-jesus-was-the-opening-and-the-emptying-of-the-full-heart/)

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> [There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/there-is-poetry-and-there-is-beauty-in-real-sympathy-but-there-is/)

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> [Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/do-not-be-content-with-the-old-anointing-it-is-essential-to-a-more/)

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> [Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/christ-s-boundless-grace-confronts-our-deep-necessities-christ-s/)

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> [It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly, and grasps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/it-is-then-we-say-in-the-successive-stages-of-his-experience-that-the/)

[Octavius Winslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavius-winslow/)

> [“There can be no real establishment apart from growth in spiritual knowledge. Oh seek to be rooted and grounded in the faith! Do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/there-can-be-no-real-establishment-apart-from-growth-in-spiritual/)

[Octavius Winslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavius-winslow/)

> [“And let us, on this birthday of the year, renew each his personal and solemn dedication to God; supplicating forgiveness for the past, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/and-let-us-on-this-birthday-of-the-year-renew-each-his-personal-and/)

[Octavius Winslow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavius-winslow/)

> [In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/in-social-life-in-the-family-government-in-the-church-and-in-the/)

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> [“no such affluence of wisdom and knowledge, and truth and holiness, could flow from any other source than Deity,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/no-such-affluence-of-wisdom-and-knowledge-and-truth-and-holiness/)

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> [You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/you-are-not-called-to-believe-in-your-love-to-god-but-in-god-s-love/)

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> [For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/for-this-god-is-our-god-for-ever-and-ever-he-will-be-our-guide-even/)

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> [“Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavius-winslow/contrition-for-an-offence-must-precede-the-pardon-of-an-offence/)

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