Vikram Chatwal Quotes

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

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.

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.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

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

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

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.

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

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

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.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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

I know what sin is.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

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 have sinned against you, my Lord.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.