Sins Quotes
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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
Martin Luther
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Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.
Brennan Manning
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It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.
Thomas Aquinas
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Victor Hugo
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Thomas Aquinas
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.
Boonaa Mohammed
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We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Not only has the debt of our sins been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.
Jerry Bridges
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I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.
Catherynne M. Valente
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
Seneca the Younger
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9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.
Eugene Kennedy
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Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.
Hazrat Inayat Khan