Thomas Brooks Quotes

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

I know I'm a sinner.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

Only sinners need saviors.