John Chrysostom Quotes

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

Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.

I believe in second chances.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

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.

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.

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

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.

I’m not a saint unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

Who doesn't like salvation?