Tara Stiles Quotes

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

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?

The message I always received was God is good. You're bad. Try harder. I pretty much kept my hand up at anything that represented God.

I'm accountable to my God, and I haven't done anything I'm embarrassed of.

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

Sin is in, and so we begin.

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.

I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

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

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.