John Darnielle Quotes

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.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

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.

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

I was brought up in church, but when I confessed my errors, they put me out.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

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.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from 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!

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

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

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.

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

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.