Quotes by : M. Basilea Schlink

People say, "How can God let that happen? How can God remain silent about all the wicked things that....

Self-justification - that is, claiming one's innocence and thus in the final analysis blaming God - is....

Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets....

We are apathetic and indifferent towards our sins, and we are usually not disturbed by them at all. We....

The increasing lawlessness and the fact that love has grown cold - signs that Jesus specifically named....

Thus the penitent are actually sincere, truthful and realistic. They sorrow for their sins before it....

Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for....

Is it not shameful to accept God's blessings as though they were our due without thinking of the heart....

He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then....

The human heart has a way of thinking that it is always in the right and has no need to weep over its....