Thomas Fuller Quotes

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

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

I know what sin is.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.

I know I'm a sinner.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

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

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

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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

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

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.