Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

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

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

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.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

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.

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.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

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.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

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.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.