Christian-fiction Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more…

— Geoffrey Wood

“We do repent not to be forgiven, but because we are forgiven.”

— Alin Sav

“We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay…

— Robert Dykstra

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“But what I am beginning to suspect is that most guilty people reject the possibility of forgiveness not because it is too good to…

— William Sloane Coffin

“The truth is that very few understand the truth about forgiveness. It is not the culprits who need to be forgiven; rather it is…

— Margaret Atwood

“Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of…

— Bryan Chapell

“ Guilt is non-acceptance. Repentance is acceptance. ”

— Sri Amma Bhagwan

“Forgiveness is an internal, psychological shift people who feel they were wronged make for themselves, by themselves.”

— Andrea Goeglein

“Allowing one’s self to be forgiven is just as hard as forgiving. Harder in some ways. Because to be forgiven, one first has to…

— Laura Lippman

“Repentance leads to forgiveness of sins.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Guilt is felt by not only the guilty, but more so by those who feel they deserve it when in fact, they don’t. Guilt…

— K.M. Golland