C. S. Lewis Quotes

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

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 took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

To have clemency, it is necessary to admit guilt.

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

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

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness.

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.

Penitence must precede pardon.