Joseph Hall Quotes

Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

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

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

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.

Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, 'Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.