Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

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

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

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

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

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

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when I came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me.... About 10 o’clock I went to my lodgings. I had good health but wicked thoughts, God forgive me.

There's not a Christian out there who hasn't struggled with wanting to break a rule or having broken a rule over and over again.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.