Samin Nosrat Quotes

Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be respectful - "Yes chef!" - and you'll be given a trade. One day you'll be in a position where you can put a roof over your children's heads, you can put food on their table, create security for them.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

What does the Atonement have to do with missionary work? Any time we experience the blessings of the Atonement in our lives, we cannot help but have a concern for the welfare of others. ... A great indicator of one's personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others.

Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness.

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience.

If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

We have nothing in our account but zeroes! And yet, because of His great love, God forgave us our astronomical debt.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches if it is not to feel under a curse.

Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.