M. Basilea Schlink

Quotes

• “To be spiritually alive is to live in repentance. Spiritually dead are those Christians who never weep over their sins o...”
• “Thus the penitent are actually sincere, truthful and realistic. They sorrow for their sins before it it too late, unlike...”
• “By our everyday actions, by our unwillingness to admit our mistakes and sins, we Christians have declared God dead - per...”
• “If we are discouraged because we lack repentance and excuse ourselves by saying that it does not lie in our power to obt...”
• “He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then sought to call u...”
• “Repentance is the gateway through which the Gospel can come to us. Repentance is the gateway to a joy-filled life with C...”
• “The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its sins. By nature, w...”
• “Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for all men are Adam's...”
• “Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart of the Giver, who...”
• “With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we...”
• “Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets us have a foretas...”