#sins

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#black #cast #catalog #christ #continued

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#acts #against #always #conscience #every

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

#any #conditions #confession #contrition #good

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#addictive #damnation #point #sins #tend

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#again #been #being #found #lost

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#again #am #back #bank #come

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine. ↗

— Jim Carroll

#sins #dreams

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. ↗

— Josh Billings

#committed #easier #intend #much #repent

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ↗

— Josh Billings

#forgiven #laughed #lord #man #sins