Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.

I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.

There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.