Mary Astell Quotes

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

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

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so that we can fulfill our life's mission and His purposes. He wants us to be successful, and He will help us as we seek His help.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

No one may do evil that good may come.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.