C. S. Lewis Quotes

He that does evil hates the light.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Innocents don't learn from their sins; the chastened are informed by them.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!