There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven. — Alice Cary 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
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce 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
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
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
Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. — Ralph Venning 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
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley 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
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
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
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
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
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
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
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
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But… — William Davenant 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
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
“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
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
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