William Byrd II Quotes

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

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

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I was entangled by weakness, by passion, by sin, in coils which it was almost impossible to break.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.

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

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

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.

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

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.

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

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.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

There is no man who does not sin.