Trying again!

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." Was part of a comment yesterday - LOVED it - so relevant.  It is a quote by  the author of Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson.  But I found some other interesting and similar quotes:

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."  --  Oscar Wilde

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” – Nelson Mandela

"God creates out of nothing.  Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners." - Soren Keirkegaard

"Many of the insights of the saints stem from their experience as sinners."– Eric Hoffer

I loved all these - GOOD reasons to keep trying.  We get knocked down (or we knock ourselves down!) And God's grace covers it all.  We are forgiven and given another chance - praise the Lord!

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