Vincent McNabb Quotes

We're all in this together. We're all sinners.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

There are no unforgivable sins.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

In no great religious movement has philanthropy been very strong, or rather sentiment or pity---The consciousness of sin has been too strong.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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

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.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Jesus Christ came for me, and he came for each person that is infected with HIV/AIDS. God loves that person. He doesn't hate them. They've made mistakes. We've all made mistakes. But God loves them, God cares for them, and Jesus Christ died for their sins.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

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.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.