When we won't let ourselves be held in the midst of our messes by God who loves us and made us, we miss the unspeakable joy of knowing that we are truly His beloved. --Deborah Newman
Personal sin reflected upon breeds compassion. --John M. Shanahan
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away. --R. T. Kendall
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself. --Suzanna Wesley
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? --Oscar Wilde
It is not that we need more power, but that we need more brokenness. When we are properly broken we will find the indwelling Christ is more than sufficient. —Chip Brogden
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth. -- George MacDonald
Men do not differ much about what things they call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. -- G. K. Chesterton
Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.--Johann Arndt
Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.--Bonnell Thornton
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
When one doesn’t learn to resist the devil, he or she probably doesn’t know much of submitting to God. --Greg Manalli
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.—Brennan Manning
If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure. --George MacDonald
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. --D.A. Carson
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you, sinking sinner ? This alone — I have a high priest in heaven, and he can support in the hour of affliction. This alone can give you peace—I have a high priest in heaven. When you are dying — when friends can do you no good — when sins rise up like spectres around your bed — what can give you peace ? This — "I have a high priest in heaven" --Robert Murray M'Cheyne
(quotes selected from http://www.tentmaker.org/Quotes/repentancequotes.htm)
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