Christopher Columbus Quotes

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

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

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 began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

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.

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.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

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

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.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

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.

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.

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.

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

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

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

I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.