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    A. W. Tozer
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    Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    2 Corinthians 4:7-10, Psalm 51:17, Psalm 147:3, Psalm 34:18
    No matter how much the world shatters us to pieces, we carry inside us a vision of wholeness that we sense is our true home and that beckons us.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Both processes begin even before death. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man's past already conforms...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Romans 12:19, Matthew 5:23-24, Colossians 3:8, Ephesians 4:26-27, Proverbs 15:18, Proverbs 14:29, James 1:19-20
    Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to com...

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    Jamie Dimon
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    Isaiah 1:18, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Romans 3:23-24, Psalm 32:5, Acts 3:19, Proverbs 28:13
    We know mistakes were made.

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    Matthew 1:1
    The birth of Jesus Christ is the nerve center of history, a kind of ganglion that connects all the fibers of mankind’s nervous system. His birth brings the past experiences (summarized in Matthew 1:1–...

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    Chuck DeGroat
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    Colossians 3:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, 1 John 2:16, James 1:14-15, Romans 8:1-2, Galatians 5:16-17
    The early church fathers named the primary sin patterns “passions,” borrowing a Latin term that could also be translated “sufferings ” As we live out a unique pattern or “face” of sin, we begin to thi...

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    Glen Scrivener
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    Ephesians 2:1-2, Romans 7:18-20, Romans 3:23, Psalm 51:5, Romans 5:12
    The next time you say something deceitful, hurtful or proud, you cannot say “I don’t know what came over me.” Nothing came over you. Such sins come _out_of you. They come from a wellspring that is ver...

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    Annemarie S. Kidder
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    Repentance resulting from self-examination is a lifelong endeavor, occasionally surfacing in the public or private act of confession as an act of “courageous memory” in recalling one’s past.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Psalm 103:8, 1 John 4:16, Proverbs 3:5-6, Lamentations 3:22-23, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28
    Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.

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    Phillips Brooks
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    The only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

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    Edna Hong
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    ..a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 14:12
    And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pl...

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    Mark Batterson
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    Hebrews 13:16, Matthew 25:40, 1 Peter 2:12, Galatians 5:13, Matthew 5:16, James 2:17, James 4:17
    We fixate on sins of commission far too much. We practice holiness by subtraction-don't do this, don't do that, and you're okay. The problem with that is this: you can do nothing wrong and...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Luke 18:13-14, Romans 5:8, Mark 2:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world H...

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    Anna Godbersen
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    “We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects.”

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    Brennan Manning
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    2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Psalm 34:18, Ephesians 5:13, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:2
    In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light fo...

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    Frederick Lewis Donaldson
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics witho...

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    Teresa of Avila
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    My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The ey...

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    Shusaku Endo
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    Luke 10:30-37, Isaiah 58:6-7, 1 John 3:17, Romans 13:10, Proverbs 14:21
    “Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he h...

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 4:7, Romans 8:7, Galatians 5:17
    Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u...

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    Roger J. Burdette
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    It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday.

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:1, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:10, 1 John 1:8-9
    Myself unholy, from myself unholy to the sweet living of my friends I look—eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, fresh sand to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:—and they are purér, but alas! n...

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    Karl Barth
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    Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
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    “Shall we never never get rid of this Past? … It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.”

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    Robert South
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    Repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

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    Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    Genesis 4:3-10 , 1 Samuel 15:13-24 , Isaiah 29:13-15 , Luke 18:9-14, James 2:10-13 , Psalm 32:3-5
    We readily confess our little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
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