Hyman Rickover Quotes

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.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

A man will show no mercy, and then plead to God for mercy!

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

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

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

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.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.