C. S. Lewis Quotes

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

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.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

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

I am a big sinner.

I know I'm a sinner.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

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.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

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

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.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

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 believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness.

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.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.