"Remission of sin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fact that "in the physical world there is no forgiveness of sins;" to abandon our evil courses is not to escape the punishment of them, and although we may have relinquished them wholly in the present, we cannot escape the consequences of the past. Remission of sin is not the remission of their results. The very monsters we dread, and the dread of which terrifies us into the consideration of our ways, glare upon us out of the future darkness, as large, as terrible, as irresistible, whether we approach them on the road to ruin, or ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar
... like unto our Great Father, God. This salvation is obtained by obeying the principles of the gospel and performing the ordinances required therein. You all know what the first of these principles and ordinances are. One of the ordinances is that a person must be baptized by water for the remission of sin. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved," said the Savior. This must of course be performed here on earth, and by a servant of God ...
— A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Nephi Anderson
... as an a priori principle, that "without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin," is both foolish and futile in an age that has abandoned the conception of bloody sacrifice and which is loudly demanding the abolition ...
— The Church, the Schools and Evolution • J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant
... Apostle was sent to Cornelius for the single purpose of inculcating the doctrine of the remission of sin, through faith in Christ. ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... cause of sin, in this sense, that he withdraweth his grace from man; and grace withdrawn, he cannot but sin. These articles with the following make up the whole charge, (1.) That auricular confession is not necessary to salvation. (2.) That actual penance cannot purchase the remission of sin. (3.) That there is no purgatory, and that the holy patriarchs were in heaven before Christ's passion. (4.) That the pope is Antichrist, and that every priest hath as much power as he.——For these articles, ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie |
