David A. Bednar Quotes

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Only sinners need saviors.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.

If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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.

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

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

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

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.

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.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

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

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