Henry B. Eyring Quotes

He that does evil hates the light.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

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

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.