Penitent Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton
Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All… — Truman G. Madsen
Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts… — Norman Grubb
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash… — John Flavel
Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness… — Thomas Merton
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. — Theodor Adorno
The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary.… — Thomas Cahill
PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment. — Ambrose Bierce
No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and… — J C Ryle
There is no 'love of God' for you unless you have repented or unless you do repent. Make no mistake about this. Do not rely… — Martyn
It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. — Thomas a Kempis
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest,… — Vigen Guroian
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the… — Thomas Brooks
Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've… — Jon Foreman
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief. — Dwight L. Moody
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and… — Honore de Balzac
Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of… — Charles Spurgeon
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of… — Tertullian
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard

Who Wrote These Penitent Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Penitent Quotes as follows: