Keira Knightley Quotes

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.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

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

I know I'm a sinner.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

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

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

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

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.