Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

We know that we are not collectively guilty, so how can we accuse any other nation, no matter what some of its people have done, of being collectively guilty?

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.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

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.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

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.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals