William Kent Krueger Quotes

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

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

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

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

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

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

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

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.