Philip Rivers Quotes

I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness rested on my heart. I could not think of anything I had done to cause me to feel sad; but it seemed to me that I was not good enough to enter Heaven, that such a thing would be altogether too much for me to expect.

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

It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

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

There are no unforgivable sins.

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.

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.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of 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.

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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.

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.

God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.

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

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

Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.

Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

I live my life and make mistakes and sin every single day... but that's what grace is for.