Quotes about Relapse

To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.

it is common for those that have called themselves His servants, after awhile to give Him the slip, and return again to me.

We must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution. And is not the reason perhaps for our countless relapses and the feebleness of our Christian obedience to be found precisely in the fact that we are living on self-forgiveness and not a real forgiveness.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.