Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.
It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members
