Remission Quotes

• If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

  John Milton

  Men, Weakness, Wickedness

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

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• It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Past, Sin, Avoiding

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• Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.

  David Mitchell

  War, Years

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.453, Random House

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• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiveness, Sin, Found

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• The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

  James A. Garfield

  Blood, Slavery, May

  Diary entry, June 08, 1881.

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• I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

  Richard Cobden

  Military, Fall, Home

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• While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

  Kris Carr

  Cancer, May, Unhealthy Relationships

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• Life sucks, and then you die.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wwe, Life Sucks, Breaking Dawn

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• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

  John Green

  Giving, Ifs, I Can

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.91, Penguin UK

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• I give and bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it me, hoping that through the meritorious death and passion of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ to receive absolution and remission for all my sins.

  George Mason

  Jesus, Passion, Giving

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• Baptism is a sign to God, to angels, and to heaven that we do the will of God, and there is no other way beneath the heavens whereby God hath ordained for man to come to Him to be saved, and enter into the kingdom of God, except faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, and baptism for the remission of sins, and any other course is in vain; then you have the promise of the gift of the Holy Ghost.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Angel, Men

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• I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Psychiatrist

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• I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

  Gene Wilder

  Alive, Wells, I'm Alive

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• The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'

  David A. Bednar

  Hands, Baptism, Acting

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• She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.

  Alice Munro

  Blessing, People, Way

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• [Peter] testified to [the Jews in Acts 2] that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Judge of the living and dead, into whom he did also command them to be baptized for the remission of sins.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Son, Judging

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• You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Views, Water

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• Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Acceptance, Baptism, Principles

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• ....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.

  John Diamond

  Cancer, Survival, Quality

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• We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Believe, Apostolic Church, Catholic

  "Unam sanctam". Papal bull by Pope Boniface VIII, 1302.

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• All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

  Pope Urban II

  Sea, Land, Battle

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• The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Reflection, Individual, Program

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Blow, Cells, People

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• [Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.

  Gene Wilder

  Years, Mark, Fine

  Source: keranews.org

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