Modern Christian's with their nit - picking exegesis, their discourse microscopes, their myriad alternative interpretations, are not repentant sinners seeking God, but the judge and jury with God in the dock. (redeeminggod.com)
Through indulgences the Church makes a close link between «the merits» of the saints and the needs of a particular repentant sinner. (faith.org.uk)
No longer could I get the satisfaction of seeing a crowded altar full of fearful, repentant sinners because I delivered a sermon that painted a picture of a very hot, miserable eternity if they died tonight without a belief in Jesus.» (rachelheldevans.com)