Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

I know what sin is.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

I know I'm a sinner.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

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.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.