Quotes about Debt
When an offense occurs, a debt is owed. You have heard it said, "He'll pay for this." So forgiveness is like the cancellation of a debt.
- John Bevere
But ground will produce only what is planted in it. If we plant seeds of debt, unforgiveness, and offense, another root will spring up in place of the love of God. It is called the root of bitterness.
- John Bevere
The great enemy of grace is the strict accounting of our sin and corruption that when added up totals such a staggering debt that no person without faith in the sure promises of God would ever dare calculate that anything good awaits him and would further be convinced that all that does lie ahead is a complete foreclosure of his soul and all its contents. Pliable
- John Bunyan
But God hath undertaken to right Himself. He will reckon with them. He hath undertaken to see that the debts due to Him are paid. All their sins are written in His book: not one of them is forgotten, and every one must be paid…"He will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face" (Deu 7:10).
- JC Ryle
The great debt with God must be settled. The King must be upon His throne. Then, and not until then, will there be peace within. Without repentance, there cannot be true happiness. We must repent if we want to be happy.
- JC Ryle
Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington.
- James A. Garfield
When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.
- Lynn Austin
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
- John Milton
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.
- Adoniram Judson
I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
- Andrew Jackson
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
- Ezra Taft Benson