Thomas Brooks Quotes

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.