Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes

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

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.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

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.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

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

I know I'm a sinner.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I know what sin is.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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.

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.

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.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.