APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA Along the same line a contrast with Jesus' self-chosen and fully-conscious appointment in Jerusalem is the classic story as retold by Alan Crandall: Legend says that it happened in the streets of…
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DUBIOUS CONFESSION A newspaper story told of a man who returned to his car in a parking lot and found a note under the windshield wiper. It read as follows: "I have just smashed into…
THE NIGHT OF SORROW Blessed to us is the night, for it reveals the stars. Anonymous
TRUE REPENTANCE has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eyes, and upon the future with a watchful eye. Robert South
THE SIN OR THE PENALTY True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has dicovered and felt God's love. W. M. Taylor
REPENTANCE True repentance is to cease from sin. Ambrose of Milan
DEATH BED REPENTANCE There is one case of death bed repentance recorded -- that of the penitent thief, that none should despair; and only one that none should presume. Augustine
CONFESSION It is the confession, not the priest, that gives absolution. Oscar Wilde
THE END OF CONFESSION It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, whether mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end. St.…
THE JOY OF THE REPENTANT HEART When the soul has laid down its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. Eugenie de Guerin
THE CYNICAL VIEW OF REPENTANCE Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of consequences. La Rochefoucauld
PRAYER is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. Ralph Waldo Emerson
TRIBULATION God's fastest road to patience, character, hope, confidence, and genuine love. (See Romans 5:1-6)
SELF-DECEPTION Before God can deliver us from ourselves we must undeceive ourselves. Augustine
THERE ARE VARIOUS MOTIVATIONS FOR COURAGE My cousin wrote from New York describing an incident that happened to her son Buck in NYC. A couple of weeks ago he was walking from the bus depot…
WANTED: HUNDRED MEN John Wesley said, "Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be…
MOTTO OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me.
OBEDIENCE TO GOD The following is a letter quoted in Dobson's Focus on the Family publication from a reader named Jacque: Dear Dr. Dobson, I was married to a nonbeliever for 14 years in what…
UNDERSTANDABLE COURAGE Maurice bragged, "I'm not afraid of anything. Once I even cut off a lion's tail with my pen knife." Someone asked, "Why didn't you cut off his head?" Maurice looked a bit sheepish.…
OBJECTIVITY General Robert E. Lee was asked what he thought of a fellow officer in the Confederate Army who had made some derogatory remarks about him. Lee rated him as being very satisfactory. The person…
