William Faulkner Quotes

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

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

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

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!

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

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

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

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

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

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

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

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

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

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.