Richard Reynolds (bishop) Quotes

Richard Reynolds was an English bishop of Lincoln.

✵ 1674 – 1743
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Richard Reynolds (bishop) Quotes

“God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 273.

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