#repentance — Public Fediverse posts
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Strange! that a world cursed by God, filled with temptations and thick with fiends, should be the only place where hope exists, the only place where man can repent, the only place where reform is possible! Strange! that heaven, filled with angels and presided over by God, is the only place where reformation is utterly impossible! Yet these are the teachings of all the believers in the eternity of punishment.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York CityMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #Christianity #damnation #earth #eternalpunishment #God #heaven #hope #lastchance #penitence #reforming #repentance #salvation #sin #temptation #world
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Luther identifies a specific abuse of gospel freedom: concluding grace means living as one pleases, then worshipping Mammon, accumulating ruthlessly, extracting wealth from land and people. Conservative Christians vigorously oppose gospel license in certain areas. Covetousness and extraction feature less prominently in those warnings. Luther did not make that distinction.
#lutheranchurchmissourisynod #luther #greed #socialjustice #solidarity #salvation #repentance
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Restlessness
A Monday Monday Song
I’ve been thinking lately about what I need.
There’s so much wrapped up in me.
I’m tired of being split in two.
Has the dye been caste or can
I melt into someone new?I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.The taste of my life is bittersweet
like this wine-soaked rag they force on me.
I’m caught between earth and sky
I can’t connect to either.
Eloi. Eloi. Why?I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.It seems I am always cleaning my temple.
I’m always cleaning house,
trying to throw the money hangers out . . .An Iaonus Production 8.26.24
Lyrics August, 19, 1996
#1996 #bittersweet #ChristianMusic #contemplativeMusic #earthAndSky #EloiEloi #faithAndDoubt #innerDivision #innerTemple #JesusImagery #longing #lyrics #moneyChangers #Music #orderFromChaos #originalSong #renewal #Repentance #restlessness #sacredSymbolism #simplify #SongLyrics #Songs #soulWork #spiritualFormation #spiritualStruggle #splitInTwo #surrender #TempleCleansing #Transformation #Wilderness #WordPressTagsSpiritualSong -
A Day for the World to Say Sorry
From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair
A PeaceGrooves Reflection
There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.
Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.
National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
#AboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples #AnabaptistPeaceWitness #Australia #buildingAJustFuture #colonialism #globalPeace #Healing #historicalMemory #IndigenousJustice #InternationalSorryDay #NationalSorryDay #Nonviolence #Peacebuilding #PeaceGrooves #publicApology #Reconciliation #rememberingThePast #reparations #Repentance #RestorativeJustice #SocialJustice #StolenGenerations #truthAndReconciliation -
The Hebrew language doesn't play games with your failure. It’s time to stop hiding and face the forensic reality of your sin. Get on your knees or keep rotting in mediocrity. ⚔️🔥
#BiblicalManhood #HebrewWordStudy #Repentance
https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/the-eightfold-lexicon-of-hebrew-sin/
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently all we can do is pretend to believe we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo repentance and pseudo bliss.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8397…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #dishonesty #fabrication #facade #fakery #faking #falsehood #forgiveness #insincerity #pretense #pretension #repentance #sinner #spirituality
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“Notice the progression: recognition of guilt, confession of sin, and restitution, plus 20 percent additional compensation, demonstrating genuine repentance through generous restoration.”
Making Things Right — https://www.todayintheword.org/daily-devotional/wandering-in-the-wilderness/making-things-right/
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https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/on-nature-of-autocracy-as-spiritual.html On the Nature of #Autocracy as a #Spiritual #Trial of #Civilization #spirituality #fear , #slavery , #loyalty , #learnedhelplessness , #repentance , #freedom , Dmitry #Glukhovsky
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At times I wonder if I upbraid my readers too much. Even if usually not overtly.
But then I check out what the great WEATHER IS HAPPENING Weather Man is (always) telling his readers. Overtly. Reminding me how maybe we all should be upbraided more, not less...
Yeah, it's a fine mess we've made! And no, I don't think Weather Man is only joking around. Not truly.
#repentance
#WeatherIsHappeninghttps://weatherishappening.network/@WEATHERISHAPPENING/116256146311230496
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He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1745 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/82…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #repentance #compensation #correction #delay #later #present #procrastination #reform #remorse #resolution
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I saw a #StatusCoup vid with a former #MAGA Trump voter being interviewed on the street, at a #FuckICE protest in #Minneapolis #Minnesota. He demonstrated genuine #humility , #repentance & #regret. People like that - I can forgive because everyone makes mistakes. It's how people choose to deal with their mistakes that builds up or tears down their own personal character.
I've always been open to #forgiveness when humility, repentance & making better, more humane, personal choices, going forward - are demonstrated. I'm only a hardliner with forgiveness when none of the above-mentioned actions are taken.
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What do a tyrant, an apostle, and a thief have in common? A heady cocktail of jealousy and envy. 🧪 We’re exploring how to stamp out the "love line" violations before they take root.
Get the full story: https://downiefamily.wixsite.com/wherebreadisfound/post/get-off-the-ladder-the-opponents
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Thinking this is more of a; "Shave your hair, donate all your earthly possessions to the orphans and join the monastery for 10 years" job.
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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #mortification #penance #president #reminder #repentance #sinfulness #trouble
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We will not see a russian president who is willing to kneel in Bucha. The problem is not putin, but the society that created him – Portnikov
#Bucha #history #Portnikov #putin #repentance #russia #Tribune #Ukraine #war
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The 2nd Sunday of Advent brings a call to repentance and renewal 🌿. Isaiah speaks of hope, and John the Baptist urges us to prepare the way for the Lord 🙏.
Advent is not passive waiting—it’s active faith. We clear space in our hearts so that Christ may come close ✨.
https://young-catholics.com/3701/2nd-sunday-of-advent-year-a
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
If it were enough, to repent the last Day of thy Life; yet how canst thou be sure to do that; unless thou doest it this very Day? Since this Day may be (for ought thou knowest) thy last.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2305 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #regrets #reform #death #expectations #mortality #repentance #uncertainty
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Arthur Dent, an English Puritan preacher, guides on Christian living. He sees oppression occurring in a broad range of categories. These range from cruelty within a contract or price negotiation to oppression of the church.
St. Clare, in _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_, said, “I’m repenting all the time.” Others might say if I can’t go after other people about something, how can it be a sin?
How can you take pains to not participate in oppression?
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #error #mistake #persistence #repentance #shamelessness #sin #humannature
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Pride can manifest in unexpected ways, leading to a dangerous sense of self-sufficiency. It can hinder recognizing faults and seeking repentance. Discover the twofold aspect of pride and its impact. #pride #repentance #faults #humility #faith
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"Yom Kippur is the antidote to this theology. It is the Jewish insistence that all of us are seekers of an asymptotic truth, that we are equal in that search and owe each other grace and compassion along the way. Our theology says that the gates of repentance are always open, that teshuvah is possible, that it starts with working together to see the truth, to recognize its errors, to attempt repair, and to commit to a better future."
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"The MAGA movement seeks to promulgate a triumphalist theology that attempts to determine the truth of America’s past and says that repentance is impossible because doing so would be 'corrosive' or 'disparaging.' This theology is built on the fundamentalist, extreme myth that it has the absolute truth of who we are as a Christian nation, and thus the only acceptable response is obedience."
#YomKippur #repentance #remembrance #teshuvah #Trump #MAGA #history #ChristianNationalism
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Rabbi Michael G. Holzman offers a Yom Kippur meditation on how the Trump administration's decision to lie about and obliterate American history militates against the most fundamental meaning of Yom Kippur — the call to remember, acknowledge, and repent of our wrongdoings.
He states,
"We are living in a theological crisis."
#YomKippur #repentance #remembrance #teshuvah #Trump #MAGA #history
/1https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/political-triumphalism-is-contrary