Margaret Smith Quotes

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

I know I'm a sinner.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

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!

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

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 have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

We are all sinners.

I stand behind these words: I'm a Christian, but I'm not perfect.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

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

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.