David Jeremiah Quotes

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.