John Milton Quotes

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

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

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

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

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

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

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

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.

There are no unforgivable sins.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

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

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.