Quotes About Backsliding

#1. If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.

Pope Innocent III

#2. Great is repentance, because for the sake of one that truly repenteth the whole world is pardoned; as it is written (Hosea xiv. 4), 'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from him.'" It is not said, "from them," but "from him.

Various

#3. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.

Ellen G. White

#4. Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

John Ruskin

#5. I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#6. Going overboard on a quest for perfection leads to life suckage and backsliding.

James S. Fell

#7. Someone said, "Backsliding is not a blowout. It's a slow leak.

Don Sisk

#8. Once you backslide, strife will enter your life

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I did love her. I've loved her from the first time I saw her.

Ann Brashares

#10. It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

Cyc Jouzy

#11. Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

J.C. Ryle

#12. What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

George Eliot

#13. Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia

#14. that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without

J.C. Ryle

#15. Satan rejoices when old habits overwhelm [us] and we cave in to the pressure of the crowd ... perhaps temptation lures [us] into sin ... a backsliding Christian compromises their faith and causes unbelievers to mock the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#16. It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. I'm sure it's going to catch up with me.

Guy Maddin

#18. Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.

Jesse McCartney

#19. You're going to mess this up, do you know that? You don't even see what's in front of you. You're like everybody else.
No, I'm not.
You're dreaming backward.

Kent Haruf

#20. He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.

Arthur W. Pink

#21. You can blame circumstances, but backsliding always begins in the heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#22. It is a fact verified and recorded in many histories that soul capable of the greatest good is also capable of the greatest evil. Who is there more impious than backsliding priest? Who more carnal than a recent virgin? This, however, may be a matter of appearance.

John Steinbeck

#23. If you do not evaluate your salvation highly enough, then in time you will backslide

Sunday Adelaja

#24. I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Donald Cargill

#25. A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Billy Sunday

#26. The reason why many ministers go astray is that they underestimate what they were called to do

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Vance Havner

#28. The more you love the Scriptures, the firmer will be your faith. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.

D.L. Moody

#29. Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#30. We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

Daniel Quinn

#31. There seems to be a psychological law of inertia that bogs down every hopeful activist and subverts every revolution. When compassion and empathy fail, backsliding begins. Or totalitarianism.

Patrick Califia-Rice