Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

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.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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

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

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

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

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.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Only sinners need saviors.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

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.

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

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

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!

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

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