Marvin Gaye Quotes

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

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

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.