Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

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

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

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

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

'Buffy' is about growing up. 'Angel' is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you've done, and redemption.

There are deeds, crimes that may be forgiven. But this is not one of them.

Jesus teaches us that nothing is unforgivable.

I can tell you that good people do bad things.

I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

I don't think everyone should get a second chance.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.