Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there’s no use in trying.”… — Greg Keyes Copy Share Image
Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept,… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able… — Charles Deems Copy Share Image
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“Now they came, spectres in mourning, humbling themselves, ghosts, their eyes the only points of brightness. It was harrowing: a long cortege… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Here is the interesting twist:[McLeod] Campbell came to his views through reading Jonathan Edwards who suggested at one point in his ruminations… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was a long week of penitence and fasting, during which there were no card games and no music that might lead… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Polyphiloprogenitive The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift across the window-panes. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life. — William Henry Houghton Copy Share Image
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven. — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
“Penitence is a temporary thing. We’re all thieves by nature and saints only by grace.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.” — R.K. Harrison Copy Share Image
All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.' 'Forgive you! 0, la, la, la!' cunningly cried the droll, and… — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image