Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

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

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

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

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

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

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.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.