#sinners

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#catholicism #christianity #god #religion #sinners

Being a “friend of sinners” is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#sinners #welcome #religion

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#even #good #love #love you #same

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#cross #death #hardened #itself #like

My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" "Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded a guess. Father S signed. "I met Eleanor. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#the-original-sinners #tiffany-reisz #forgiveness

Michael, Eleanor is without a doubt the most beautiful woman who has ever or will ever live. If you could take a nighttime thunderstorm and turn it into a woman, you would have a very good idea what she looks like. And a fairly good idea how she behaves as well. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#the-angel #tiffany-reisz #beauty

Hate the sin, love the sinner. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#love #religion #sin #sinners #love

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#insights #many #saint #sinners #stem

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#manufacture #saves #science #seeks #sinners