David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ And this is well; for though God may forgive, man is not therefore to forget. It is after, and not before, the kiss of reconciliation that this confession is made; for the more the sinner knows and tastes of the love of God, the more he grieves to have outraged that love. ”
David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ The kingdom of God is not merely a general, it is also an individual and personal, thing. It is not merely a tree overshadowing the earth, or leaven leavening the word, but each man must have it for himself, and make it his own by a distinct act of his own will. ”
David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ The truest and best repentance follows, and does not precede, the sense of forgiveness. Thus repentance will be a lifelong thing, for every new insight into that forgiving love will be as a new reason why the sinner should mourn to have sinned against it. It is a mistake to affirm that men — those, I mean, in whom a real spiritual work is going forward — will lay aside their repentance so soon as they are convinced of the forgiveness of their sins, and that therefore . ”
