Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

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

I know I'm a sinner.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

I have sinned against you, my 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.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

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.

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

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.