George A. Smith Quotes

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I know what sin is.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.