Quotes tagged ‘Repentance’

(3 total)

“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.”

— Mary Oliver, amazon.com

“Please, God, I don't want pain. I don't want to be a doll, hung on the wall. I want to keep on living. I'll do anything. Resign my body freely to the uses of others. I'll sacrifice. I'll repent. I'll abdicate. I'll renounce.”

— Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com