Basilea Schlink Quotes

Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets us have a foretaste of this divine life here and now.

Basilea Schlink

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• Only repentance can save us from spiritual death and lead us to eternal life, and only repentance lets us have a foretaste of this divine life here and now.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Divine
  • Repentance
  • eternal life,