All criminals turn preachers when they are under the gallows.
Italian proverbs
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
Saint Augustine
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
C.S Lewis
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
Charles Spurgeon
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens
'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
