Eric Hoffer Quotes

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 am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

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.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

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.

It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

I love you,” she says. “I love you,” I say. And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that. I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don’t deserve it at her expense.

Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed, who have tortured, who have done so much evil, are listening to me? Listen, there in your criminal hideout, perhaps already repentant, you too are called to forgiveness.

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience.