John Dryden Quotes

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

I suffer for these losses, but God does the deeds; he will pardon me if I exceeded in some.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.