Michelangelo Quotes

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

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.

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

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

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

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

Every man is his own worst enemy

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own