Arthur Machen Quotes

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.

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

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

Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.

I know what sin is.

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.

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

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

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

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

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.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

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

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.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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

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

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.