Alison Bechdel Quotes

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

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

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.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.