Sentences with phrase «preceded by repentance»

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It is not that repentance precedes an awareness of acceptance and hence the opening of new opportunities; rather, it is that when one knows through the action of God in the event of Jesus Christ that one is already accepted and forgiven by God the great Lover of the world, one's only response can be, «I am unworthy,» Because I am already and always accepted by God, who is the One «to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid», who knows each of us better than any of us can know ourselves, then I am impelled to see my own inadequacy, defects, failures, and wrongs.