Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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… she claimed it’s a sign of God’s mercy that He won’t let us remember the reddest details of pain. He knows the parts we can’t bear and won’t let our minds render them again. In time, from disuse, they pale away. At least such was her thinking. God lays the unbearable on you and then takes some back.

~ Charles Frazier

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Salvation does not depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy of grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.

~ Thomas C. Oden

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While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.

~ Thomas C. Oden

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Before whom am I guilty? Myself and my gods. But before God? I would be guilty before God IF God had not disclosed himself as forgiving, taking my place, rendering a verdict of pardon upon me. But upon that IF hinges the force of justification by grace through faith alone. For precisely amid our failure to actualize values we mistakenly imagine as ultimate, God himself continues to perceive us AS IF we were clothed in Christ's own righteousness. The Reformation formula, simul peccator et justus, meant: I am a sinner, deserving condemnation for my idolatry; but from God's point of view I am AT THE SAME TIME pardoned, regarded as if the charge against me were canceled out! the final verdict is thus not the one I give myself or the one that may be given in the courts of law or gossip or peer pressure. Rather, it is what God himself has decided about my situation, how he has regarded and perceived me. Through God's own incomparable initiative, our sin is not remembered against us, even though we may oddly persist in remembering it against ourselves.

~ Thomas C. Oden

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They may call you Stupid because of what you've done in the past. Hey, you are going to be Prominent because of what the Lord has done. The stupid S in Saul was exchange to become the Prominent P in Paul... and you ask why? It's because of what the Lord has done, Give thanks!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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What is an alarm clock without God's gift of life?

~ Hafiz

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Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.

~ Ron Brackin

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The moment of confession is not merely when one hears another pronounce the words: God forgives you, or 'in God's name I absolve you.' Rather it is that point at which the sinner unfeignedly experiences himself as truly judged and pardoned by God.

~ Thomas C. Oden

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