Tag: Sunday Quotations

He is answered that the “conversion,” or “repentance,” of which he is so desirous, can never take place so long as he regards God as a stern and unloving Judge. It is the goodness of God that leadeth to repentance,* and without the recognition of this “goodness” there can be no softening of heart. An impenitent sinner is one who is despising the riches of His goodness and forbearance and longsuffering… “All true repentance begins with the knowledge of the forgiving love of God.”

Bonar, H. (1881) How Shall I Go to God, 8-9

“No, indeed; He alone can deliver you from so much as even one sin; and you must go at once to Him with all that you have of evil, how much soever that may be. If you be not wholly a sinner, you don’t wholly need Christ, for He is out and out a Saviour; He does not help you to save yourself, nor do you help Him to save you. He does all, or nothing. A half salvation will only do for those who are not completely lost. He ‘His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree.'”

Bonar, H. (1881) How Shall I Go to God, 7-8