Pope Francis Quotes

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

I know I'm a sinner.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

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

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.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

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.

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

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.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

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

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

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

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

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization