Seneca the Younger Quotes

I know I'm a sinner.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

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

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

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.

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

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.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

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.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.

I live my life and make mistakes and sin every single day... but that's what grace is for.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

There are no unforgivable sins.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

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