He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
it was God's act and not mine.
I sinned daily, and Jesus still loves me. It's all washed, and if the Lord doesn't judge me and it's all forgiven, then no other man, woman, animal - anything, I don't know - can judge me!
We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.
It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins
A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
A little water clears us of this deed.
God declared me righteous!
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.
You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
