John Dryden Quotes

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.

I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

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 am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.

Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The only journey is the one within.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.