Eddie Izzard Quotes

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.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

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

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

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

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.

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

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.

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

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

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

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

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.

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