Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.
– Billy Graham
Related Quotes:
- There is a good guilt and a bad guilt… the good one Leeds us to ask for forgiveness the bad Leeds us to hide from God. – Chuck Bridges
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- more guilt, guilt, guilt. That’s the Irish condition. – Adrian McKinty
- An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. – Kirkus Review – Robert Uttaro
- Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
- [Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God. – Billy Graham
- Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage. – Billy Graham
- As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you. – Christopher Pike
- Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness. – Gary Rohrmayer
- When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us. – Billy Graham
- Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God. – Billy Graham
- Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness. – Billy Graham
- If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy. – Billy Graham
- God’s grace-”His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin-”is the wellspring of our salvation. – Billy Graham
- Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life. – Billy Graham
- Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God. – Elizabeth George
- God never calls a person [into His service] without equipping him. I know that from experience. – Billy Graham
- Forgiveness is given to us from God not because we deserve it. Forgiveness is given to us by the grace of God.(Paraphrased message from the Bible.) – Dortha Jackson
- God’s forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future. – Billy Graham
- Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness. – Billy Graham
- We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later. – Billy Graham
- Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God! – Billy Graham
- Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God. – Billy Graham
- When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God’s song of forgiveness and love. – Katy Kauffman
- A life without God is like a boat without an anchor. – Billy Graham
- [God] holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless, precious, eternal gift of salvation, and He bids you to take it without money and without price. – Billy Graham
- The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most. – David Nicholls
- The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble – Toni Sorenson
- Self care, self love.Self esteem, self confidence – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value. – Rob Liano
- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – HL Mencken
- On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations. – Peter Heg
- Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact… always supersedes belief. – Yosef AA BenJochannan
- Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. – Elena Ferrante
- Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives. – TF Hodge