To: metmom
"Now I've heard for the last thirty years that repentance is a change of mind, and I believe it, of course, as far as it goes. But that's just what's the matter with us. We have reduced repentance to a change of mind. It is a mental act, indeed, but I point out that repentance is not likely to do us much good until it ceases to be a change of mind only and becomes a wound within our spirit. No man has truly repented until his sin has wounded him near to death, until the wound has broken him and defeated him and taken all the fight and self-assurance out of him and he sees himself as the one who nailed his Saviour on the tree."
5 posted on
07/29/2015 11:26:36 AM PDT by
BlueDragon
("Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?")
To: BlueDragon
No man has truly repented until his sin has wounded him near to death, until the wound has broken him and defeated him and taken all the fight and self-assurance out of him and he sees himself as the one who nailed his Saviour on the tree."Kinda lets the wind out of; "...today you'll be with me in Paradise."
7 posted on
07/29/2015 1:09:49 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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