Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when I came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me.... About 10 o’clock I went to my lodgings. I had good health but wicked thoughts, God forgive me.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

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

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

I know what sin is.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

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

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.