#repentance

Love always precedes repentance. Divine love is a catalyst for our turning, our healing. Where fear & threat may gain our compliance, love captures our heart. It changes the heavy burden of the "have-to's" of imposed obedience to the "get-to's", a joyful response to the genuine love of God. It is in the security of this love we find Sabbath (rest). ↗

— Michael M. Rose

#forgiveness #grace-of-god #love #peace #repentance

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#christ #comfort #repentance #self #sufficiency

Would you go to heaven with flesh,young foolish soul? Repent and die, a hundred percent certainty. ↗

— Michael Bassey Johnson

#heaven #repentance #death

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#experience-to-let #jail #prison #repentance #experience

The very first evidence of awakening grace is dissatisfaction with one's self and self-effort and a longing for deliverance from chains of sin that have bound the soul. To own frankly that I am lost and guilty is the prelude to life and peace. It is not a question of a certain depth of grief and sorrow, but simply the recognition and acknowledgment of need that lead one to turn to Christ for refuge. None can perish who put their trust in Him. His grace superabounds above all our sin, and His expiatory work on the cross is so infinitely precious to God that it fully meets all our uncleanness and guilt. ↗

— Harry Ironside

#exceptyerepent #faith #need #repentance #faith

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth. ↗

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#repentance #gospel

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#hypocrisy #repentance #faith

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#come #doctor #healthy #i #need

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#faith #grace #religion #repentance #timothy-keller