Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

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!

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

That's the biggest part of going to church. You just learn how to hide your bad in front of people.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.