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"Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
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"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"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."

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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist
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"I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!"

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces"

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul."

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