Penitence Quotes
Penitence Quote of the day
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.
If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.
A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.
