“God cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming, than about who we once were.”
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Repentance
LDS Quotes on Repentance
“If we fail to forgive ourselves when God has done so, we make ourselves a higher judge than Him.”
God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.
“The ordinary soul, struggling against temptation, failing and repenting, and failing again and repenting, but always determined to keep his covenants – can still expect to one day hear ‘Well done thou good and faithful servant.'”
“No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, the clean clothes in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one’s temper and give up.”
“Don’t insist on remembering things the Lord is willing to forget.”
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“God would not have commanded us to forgive seventy times seven if he were not prepared to extend the same mathematical generosity.”
True repentance is not an event. It is a never-ending privilege. It is fundamental to progression and having peace of mind, comfort, and joy.
“The experience of sin is not an unalterable state we inhabit; it is a felt disharmony. The unhappiness of sin is nothing more than our spirit rebelling against a condition alien to its true nature. We have fallen out of alignment with God. The separation from God is not punishment inflicted by God, but the consequence of an existential reality of our own making.”
“When we’re tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.”
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