Nelson Mandela Quotes

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

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

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

I don't think God's through with me.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.

Come and try me. Forget the past, if it makes you sad. I am the Land of the Second Chance. I am the Land of Beginning Again. I will not ask who your ancestors were. I want You- nothing matters now but just you and me, and we will make good together" This is the invitation of the prairie to the discouraged and weary ones of the old lands, whose dreams have failed, whose plans are gone wrong and were ready to fall out of the race.

There is no such thing as a saint without a past or a sinner without a future.

We get second chances. We get 19th chances.

I mean this country is all about second chances. Look at me.

In life, you always have a second chance.

I believe in second chances in life.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

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

I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas.

The wheel goes round and round and comes back, and opportunities are given again. You just have to remember that.

Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.