Robert Covington Quotes

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

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

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

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.

I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

No one is beyond the power of conversion, because no one is beyond the power of truth.

I believe in second chances and I have strong faith in God that he forgives our sins.

I live my life and make mistakes and sin every single day... but that's what grace is for.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.