Joseph Goebbels Quotes

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

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.

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

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.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

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.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.